Connecticut · Nonprofit
GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS
GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,738 to it, the largest being WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($127,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $216
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $0
What Global Foundation for Eating Disorders does
Mission
The Global Foundation for Eating Disorders ("gfed") mission is to eliminate eating disorders. Gfed is a consortium of doctors, business leaders, scientists and clinicians and families touched by these illnesses who consistently stay on the cutting edge of current and emerging scientific research being conducted in the field, around the world. Gfed steps in where the federal government falls short to identify, fund and realize actionable, accountable results from the most promising scientists applying the most innovative advances in neuroscience, genetics and technology for results. By partnering with gfed as a donor, you will be taking steps to help us uncover and disseminate much needed treatments to the millions afflicted by eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder, as well as eating disorders not otherwise specified.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To eliminate eating disorders by funding and facilitating the development and dissemination of research and treatment.
$2,100 spentof which $2,100 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,100.
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.
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 $195k to $4k (−98%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Leah Harris
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $3k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS’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
GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.
Organizations like GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS: 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 GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS?
- GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,738 to it, the largest being WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($127,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $205,738 in grants to GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS?
- WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $127,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 7 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