Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
eCLOSE Institute
eCLOSE Institute (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,856 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $143k
What eCLOSE Institute does
Mission
eCLOSEs mission is to form a collaboration where scientists, teachers, and students can join forces to engage in research, problem solving, innovative programing, and other STEM activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
eCLOSE in the Classroom projects focus on cultural relevance, cancer and health disparities, critical lab skills, hypothesis generation, data colections and interpretations, and presentation of results in a professional conference format.
$30,159 spent10% of program spendingeCLOSE in the Summer is an instructional opportunity where host colleges and universities allow students to focus on gaining independence and facilitate collaborative work. Students learn advanced experimental skills and application of mathematics to laboratory problems.
$13,157 spent5% of program spendingeCLOSE Professional Development Program is a 5-day professional development sessions that provide basic laboratory skills, experience and advice in setting up a classroom laboratory, and developing learning modules that integrate into existing school curricula.
$28,087 spent10% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 217,500, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Other eCLOSE programs
$217,500 spent75% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,903.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $92k to $190k (+106%).
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.
37% of eCLOSE Institute’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $183 → $50k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 eCLOSE 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
eCLOSE Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 eCLOSE Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 99% · 2023 40% — 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
eCLOSE Institute draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $814 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
eCLOSE Institute has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like eCLOSE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for eCLOSE 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 eCLOSE Institute?
- eCLOSE Institute (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,856 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does eCLOSE Institute have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $92,856 in grants to eCLOSE Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of eCLOSE Institute?
- LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like eCLOSE Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2024), 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