California · Nonprofit
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,941 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($560,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $657k
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Earthquake Engineering Research Institute does
Mission
Eeri is a membership organization dedicated to understanding earthquake risk and increasing earthquake resilience in communities worldwide. Eeri's diverse multidisciplinary membership includes researchers, practitioners, and students in engineering, geoscience, social science, architecture, planning, government, emergency management, public health, and policy making. Eeri's mission is to provide members with the technical knowledge, leadership and advocacy skills, collaborative networks, and multidisciplinary context to achieve earthquake resilience in their communities worldwide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Eeri annual meetings and national conferences host 400-1,200 participants from diverse fields including engineering, geoscience, social science, architecture, planning, government, emergency management, public health, and policy making each year. The meetings connect and engage members to build their multidisciplinary networks, enhance their leadership and advocacy skills, provide mentoring and training opportunities, and grow their technical knowledge.
$386,683 spent$79,700 earned by the program27% of program spendingEeri's annual undergraduate seismic design competition hosts more than 450 students from 40 universities and 10 countries who participate in a hands-on competition designed to expose students to concepts in earthquake engineering. The competition, run by 20 graduate student members of the eeri student leadership council, provides a unique and meaningful opportunity for council members to practice and enhance their leadership skills.
$211,482 spentof which $1,250 as grants$65,100 earned by the program15% of program spendingFor more than 50 years, eeri's learning from earthquakes program has led field investigation studies of the major earthquakes worldwide. Multidisciplinary eeri reconnaissance teams travel to earthquake locations to document the earthquake impacts on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environments. The lessons learned from the investigations provide guidance for communities aiming to increase their resilience to earthquakes and other disasters and are shared widely through numerous webinars, conference presentations, and technical papers.
$79,133 spent6% of program spendingOther programs including earthquake spectra, eeri's professional technical journal, serves as the publication of record for the development of engineering practices, earthquake codes and regulations, public policy and investigation reports. Over 100 peer-reviewed papers are published annually in 4-issue volumes that showcase outcomes from cutting-edge research studies and engineering projects. With a strong impact factor, earthquake spectra maintains its position as a high-quality journal that broadly disseminates the latest advancements in earthquake research and practice.
$756,723 spentof which $34,500 as grants$747,810 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,434,021.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $6.3M (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 13% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 10% · 2023 13% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Heidi Treymane
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $205k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 93% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $644k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$3.2M
- National Science Foundation$181k
- Department of the Interior$130k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,941 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($560,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $656,941 in grants to EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing