California · Nonprofit
EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,055,950 to it, the largest being MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $144k
What Epigenetic Clock Development Foundation does
Mission
The clock foundation was formed for the specific and primary purpose of conducting medical research on aging and age-related diseases. Developing the epigenetic aging clock into a useful technology will require medical research on aging and age-related diseases. Consequently, the activity will advance clock foundation's specific purpose of conducting medical research on aging and age-related diseases. If the medical research of the clock foundation is successful and the fda approves the clock foundation's testing method, many new drugs or treatments that are able to reverse epigenetic aging could then be formally approved by the fda for the treatment of aging and for use in preventative medicine.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Internal research program:since inception we have focused on development of epigenetic clocks as a key enabling technology for the field. We are a small team of dedicated researchers, and this year hired additional part-time operational, admin, and finance staff, along with a new research associate. We continued to work closely with our scientific advisors, especially on development of novel testing approaches. The horvath mammalian array, a key enabling technology for translational aging research, was published in nature communications, with additional papers published in 2023 in science and nature aging. Additional papers have been released on dogs in pnas, cats, horses, sheep, marsupials, naked mole rats, and many others. The papers describe the discovery of universal mammalian aging clocks & epigenetic predictors of maximum lifespan.
$95,167 spent$33,600 earned by the program3% of program spendingExternal research collaborations: interventional longevity studies we conducted many new interventional studies, for clinical trials and also preclinical studies. This includes studies on plasmapharesis, young plasma treatment, stem cell exosomes, bone marrow transplants, umbilical cord plasma, antiretroviral treatments, and a senolytic gene therapy. We also completed analysis for a >1,000-person longitudinal study of testosterone treatment, analyzing its effects on established clinical & functional aging biomarkers. Mechanisms of aging studies there were many notable mechanistic studies this past year including from the hochedlinger lab on the role of cellular heterogeneity in epigenetic clock results, the daley lab on lin28's role in reprogramming, the levin lab on limb regeneration, the gladyshev lab on bone marrow transplants.
$2,378,281 spent$2,844,903 earned by the program70% of program spendingOther program services
$939,075 spent$6,889 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,412,523.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $955k to $330k (−65%).
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.
0% of EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Chief executive
Robert Brooke
Executive director
Board chair
Stefan Horvath
Director, chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.0M → $34k.
1 of 3 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 EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’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
EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $339k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$192k
- Department of Agriculture$65k
- Department of Commerce$64k
- Department of the Interior$19k
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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: 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 EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,055,950 to it, the largest being MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,055,950 in grants to EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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