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Lifespan Research Institution

Lifespan Research Institute ("LRI") is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on the defeat of age-related disease and the extension of healthy human lifespan through raising funds and awareness for scientific work addressing the root causes of the aging process, building a thriving ecosystem of mission aligned stakeholders which can…

$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.4MPhilanthropy$1.0MScience & Tech$821kEducation$66k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $22,595, the rows itemized in this filing. The $182,691 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $160,096 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst$12,000
The Regents of the University of California Berkeley$10,595
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Rational Vaccines Inc: $43k → 8%Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School: $11k → 16%Stanford University Office of Research Administration: $25k → 7%Applied StemCell Inc: $108k → 8%Buck Institute for Research on Aging: $576k → 8%The Regents of the University of CA: $10k → 10%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $37k → 11%Health Research Inc: $34k → 14%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $300k → 28%Rice University: $8k → 16%Yale Office of Sponsored Projects: $198k → 12%Methuselah Foundation: $2.0M → 6%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $2k → 16%Stanford University: $9k → 8%Buck Institute for Research on Aging: $219k → 8%The Regents of the University of California Berkeley: $11k → 10%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $16k → 11%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $208k → 28%Yale Office of Sponsored Projects: $180k → 12%Methuselah Foundation: $1.0M → 6%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $600 → 16%Stanford University Dept of Genetics: $8k → 8%Buck Institute for Research on Aging: $118k → 8%UC Berkeley Foundation: $1k → 10%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $14k → 11%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $186k → 28%Methuselah Foundation: $1.0M → 6%HNRCA Tufts University: $12k → 16%Stanford University: $1k → 8%Buck Institute for Research on Aging: $73k → 8%The Scripps Research Institute: $12k → 11%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $150k → 28%Turn Biotechnologies Inc: $5k → 8%Buck Institute for Research on Aging: $21k → 8%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $12k → 11%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $92k → 28%Dominican University of California: $10k → 8%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $12k → 11%Dominican University of California: $10k → 8%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $11k → 11%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $10k → 11%Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Inst: $1k → 11%The Scripps Research Institute: $600 → 11%Aspen Neuroscience Inc: $42k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $110k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Margaret Telfer Bldg Cashiers Level 4 7-79 Arundel Street$95k · 86% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Funding for external research project

Arthur-scheunert-allee 114-116 Nuthetal 14558 Germany$15k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Funding for external research project

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 8 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$6.1M
$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+99%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BI
    BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING
    5× · 2017–2021 · $978k · revenue +64%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $750k · revenue +31%
  • HR
    HEALTH RESEARCH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $169k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AE
    Albert Einstein College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $186k · revenue +259%
  • AS
    Applied StemCell Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $108k
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +71%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Health Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METHUSELAH FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE METHUSELAH FOUNDATIONYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $749,993 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYYale University: $539,072 · EducationYale UniversityAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $186,000 · EducationAlbert Einstein College of…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $142,158 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF T…+4 more: $82,556 · EducationBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $977,737 · Social ScienceBUCK INSTITUTE …HEALTH RESEARCH INC: $169,343 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $112,700 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $11,600 · HealthApplied StemCell Inc: $107,656 · OtherRational Vaccines Inc: $42,618 · OtherASPEN NEUROSCIENCE INC: $41,700 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $13,600 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $10,595 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $10,125 · Other+2 more: $12,196 · Other
Philanthropy$4,000,000Education$1,699,779Social Science$977,737Health$293,643Other$238,490

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE METHUSELAH FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $977,737 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $749,993 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $539,072 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $186,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $169,343 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $142,158 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $112,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $49,556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $11,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Federation f…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Federation for Aging Research IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation for Aging Research Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lifespan Research Institution funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lifespan Research Institution. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Lifespan Research Institution?

Find your warmest path to Lifespan Research Institution through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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