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EPIGENIX FOUNDATION

EPIGENIX FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,253,955 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$303k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$107k
2/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Epigenix Foundation does

Mission

Epigenix Foundation was founded in late 2015 with a mission to understand the epigenetic impact of metabolic interventions of human disease and performance. The team is dedicated to studying how nutrition can determine the way genetic predispositions are expressed and can be altered through the choices humans make. Currently focused on validating the efficacy of the ketogenic diet and its application in reversing cancer and extending longevity. Given that early cancer detection and intervention offer the greatest landscape of choice in reversing cancer utilizing low side effect, nutrition based therapies, epigenix focuses its resources to this purpose.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Research to further our understanding of biological sciences, and in particular, the field of epigenetics. The foundation's research has focused on furthering our understanding of the epigenetic impact of metabolic interventions of human disease and performance.

    $202,625 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($92k)2018 Revenue 50 ($779k) Expenses 57 ($866k) Net assets 5 ($4k)2019 Revenue 38 ($590k) Expenses 37 ($561k) Net assets 127 ($116k)2020 Revenue 72 ($1.1M) Expenses 37 ($563k) Net assets 716 ($659k)2021 Revenue 24 ($381k) Expenses 49 ($751k) Net assets 310 ($285k)2022 Revenue 29 ($450k) Expenses 46 ($698k) Net assets 38 ($35k)2023 Revenue 7 ($108k) Expenses 8 ($126k) Net assets 16 ($14k)2024 Revenue 20 ($303k) Expenses 14 ($218k) Net assets 117 ($107k)
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Revenue (20)Expenses (14)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $117k to $681k (+480%).

$117k
$89k
$117k
$681k
$291k
$48k
$102k
$116k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EPIGENIX FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
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−$87k
’18
$29k
’19
$557k
’20
’21
’22
−$18k
’23
’24
4.0
months of
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

Paul Raybould

President / CEO / board chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $351k → $278.

Funder
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funders
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2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EPIGENIX 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

EPIGENIX FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 EPIGENIX FOUNDATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

100% of EPIGENIX FOUNDATION'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EPIGENIX FOUNDATION's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2024.

Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EPIGENIX FOUNDATION?
EPIGENIX FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,253,955 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EPIGENIX FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,253,955 in grants to EPIGENIX FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EPIGENIX FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EPIGENIX 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.

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 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