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The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc

To conduct basic research on the interactions between physiological systems and the stresses imposed by the modern environment with the goal of optimizing these interactions to improve human health and comfort.

$2.1M
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$421k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18
6
’20
6
’21
3
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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$3.1MEducation$1.2MScience & Tech$112k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,887,635, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,098,879 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $211,244 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.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $979
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $402k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$187,696
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$421,192
RICE UNIVERSITY$420,183
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$282,515
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER$276,995
YALE UNIVERSITY$187,696
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$126,138
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$88,518
THE JOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATION$47,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,919
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$979
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $36k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $89k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $979 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $421k → 10%RICE UNIVERSITY: $420k → 16%THE JOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATION: $64k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $212k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER: $279k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $23k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $79k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $283k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $148k → 10%RICE UNIVERSITY: $232k → 16%THE JOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATION: $48k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $194k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER: $277k → 23%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $264k → 17%RICE UNIVERSITY: $226k → 16%YALE UNIVERSITY: $188k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $126k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER: $45k → 23%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $245k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $161k → 12%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $146k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 5 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$2.7M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+22%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $878k · revenue +68%
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $532k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2021 · $148k
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    one grant, 2020 · $979 · revenue +22%
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $936,465 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKWilliam Marsh Rice University: $878,101 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityYale University: $613,998 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $167,912 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER+2 more: $59,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER: $1,022,549 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTERTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $532,088 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $147,960 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASJOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATION: $111,500 · OtherJOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATION
Education$2,656,076Other$1,814,097

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $936,465 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $878,101 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $613,998 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $167,912 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATION: $111,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $58,621 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $979 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to The John B Pierce Laboratory Inc 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 10 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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