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The Methuselah Foundation

Methuselah foundation works to accelerate technological breakthroughs in healthy human life extension through regenerative medicine and nutrition, research initiatives, start-up incubation, and open innovation challenges.

$456k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Science & Tech$7.3MHealth$3.9MFood & Nutrition$400kAnimals$100kEmployment$100k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $379,237 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $456,237 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVEREST HEALTH PARTNERS LLC$100,000
LESS DEATH INC$100,000
EVEREST HEALTH PARTNERS LLC$60,000
AMARANTH LLC$50,000
OISIN BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC$40,000
PARVO MEDICS INC$16,237
THE BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC$13,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC: $13k → 16%Moral Injury of Healthcare LLC: $10k → 8%SENS Foundation: $5k → 7%SENS Foundation: $29k → 8%Buck Institute for Research on Aging: $650k → 8%Kumu Thrive: $15k → 10%Leucadia Therapeutics LLC: $30k → 11%ADG LiliCo LLC: $125k → 13%21st Century Medicine Inc: $250k → 14%MB4L: $85k → 14%Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation Inc: $400k → 6%Ichor Research Institute Inc: $4.3M → 14%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $1.1M → 28%AMARANTH LLC: $50k → 14%The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives: $445k → 14%The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Inc: $250k → 10%Healthspan Action Coalition Inc: $150k → 11%Long Life Labs LLC: $10k → 13%Actual Food: $400k → 12%PARVO MEDICS INC: $16k → 8%dPore inc: $12k → 15%OISIN BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC: $40k → 9%EVEREST HEALTH PARTNERS LLC: $100k → 6%Center for Contemporary Sciences: $60k → 8%LESS DEATH INC: $100k → 8%Orgonovo Holdings: $125k → 11%Life Extension AdvocacyFDN: $5k → 6%Ichor Research Institute INC: $1.8M → 14%The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives: $80k → 14%AXOLOTL LLC: $100k → 11%Long Life Labs LLC: $8k → 13%Ora Biomedical Inc: $25k → 9%EVEREST HEALTH PARTNERS LLC: $60k → 6%Center for Contemporary Sciences: $25k → 8%ADG Lilico LLC: $375k → 8%Ichor Life Sciences Inc: $500k → 14%Healthspan Action Coalition Inc: $50k → 11%ICHOR Therapuetics: $24k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $55k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$55k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 7 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$7.9M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+108%

Still filing today

71%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $379k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthScience & TechEducationSocial ScienceFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TA
    The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives
    2× · 2021–2022 · $525k · revenue +39% · 68% of their budget
  • LE
    LIFESPAN EXTENSION ADVOCACY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $405k · revenue +20% · 33% of their budget
  • HA
    HEALTHSPAN ACTION COALITION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +75% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

  • AE
    Albert Einstein College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +297%
  • BI
    BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGINGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $650k · revenue +41%
  • AF
    Actual Food
    one grant, 2022 · $400k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Academy for Health & Lifespan Research Inc

The taxpayer's mission is to target aging as a root cause of all age-related disorders as well as to provide support for basic and translational research to promote longer and healthier life. The goal is to drive change among states and…

Health
2
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Center for Responsible Science
Philanthropy
4
Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation
5
90-10instituteorg

create a new industry model to bring more affordable medicine to more people

6
The Foundation for Lifespan Research Inc
Social Science
7
Genomic Data Initiative
Science & Tech
8
Phaedon Institute

To address the global aging dilemma to improve the health of the world's aging seniors, accelerate the pace of scientific discoveries and their applications to improve quality of life and the universal experience of aging and health in the…

Health
9
Human Age Reversal Project Inc

The organizations principal purpose is to support scientific research and education for the general benefit of all humankind with the objective of extending the healthy human lifespan.

10
Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Preventive Medicine Research Institute is a pioneer in scientific research investigating the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease. Our work is grounded in compassion and dedication to service. PMRI achieves its…

Health
11
Life Extension Society Inc

To advance and promote scientific research in the biomedical field with the goal of extending the healthy human lifespan.

12
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute

The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespan Research Institution and the most unlike its peers is Center for the Advancement of Science in Space 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ichor Research Institute Inc — $6,613,336 · OtherIchor Research Institute IncActual Food — $400,000 · OtherADG Lilico LLC — $375,000 · Other+17 more — $1,108,900 · Other+17 moreAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $1,050,000 · EducationAlbert Ein…The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives — $525,000 · HealthThe Allia…LIFESPAN EXTENSION ADVOCACY FOUNDATION — $405,000 · HealthLIFESPAN …Lifespan Research Institution — $34,167 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING — $650,000 · Social ScienceCenter For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc — $250,000 · Science & TechHEALTHSPAN ACTION COALITION INC — $200,000 · Science & TechLess Death Inc — $100,000 · Science & TechCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC — $85,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$8,497,236Education$1,050,000Health$974,167Social Science$650,000Science & Tech$550,000Food & Nutrition$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $1,050,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING — $650,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Alliance for Longevity Initiatives — $525,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetLIFESPAN EXTENSION ADVOCACY FOUNDATION — $405,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCenter For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHEALTHSPAN ACTION COALITION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetLess Death Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC — $85,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLifespan Research Institution — $34,167 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMORAL INJURY OF HEALTH CARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING
  • Who funds The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives
  • Who funds LIFESPAN EXTENSION ADVOCACY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Center For the Advancement of Science In Space Inc
  • Who funds HEALTHSPAN ACTION COALITION INC
  • Who funds Less Death Inc
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC
  • Who funds Lifespan Research Institution
  • Who funds MORAL INJURY OF HEALTH CARE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA4.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Methuselah Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 93%
  • Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Inc93% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Methuselah Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Methuselah Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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