Florida · Nonprofit
LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC
LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,451 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($520,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $393k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $-127924
What Leverage Research Inc does
Mission
Leverage research's mission is to aid scientific advance by supporting early stage science. We support early stage science by: (1) conducting in-depth academic research into the history of early scientific discoveries in order to understand the causes and principles which drive scientific advance, (2) conducting and supporting basic research in fields that have not yet attained the level of success enjoyed by the hard sciences, especially the social sciences, and (3) communicating our findings to scientists, funders, policy makers, and members of the interested public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Metascience - in response to growing concern about scientific stagnation, some have suggested that studying science itself could be part of the solution. Leverage proposes that it may be possible to learn about science by examining the history of successful sciences. We study the major breakthroughs in the early histories of successful fields to understand how people make discoveries in the early stages of science and help researchers make new breakthroughs today. We estimate that there are between 200-400 critical discoveries in the early histories of today's successful sciences. We are currently producing in-depth case studies covering the history of electricity from william gilbert in 1600 to james clerk maxwell in 1845. The end goal of the program is to render the early history of science accessible by making it possible to examine the data set of discoveries and draw conclusions about the early scientific process.
$210,575 spentof which $87,842 as grants55% of program spendingIntrospection - over the past decade, leverage studied psychology, a field mired in a replication crisis. Our hypothesis has been, and continues to be, that introspection is a promising research method and can provide the foundation for fruitful efforts to better understand people. Our exploratory psychology program is an attempt to use an introspection-centric approach to understanding people. We believe that the creation and distribution of useful tools for introspection have the potential to advance our understanding of people and to help individuals generate beneficial self-knowledge. We provide introspective tools such as belief reporting and charting, collaborate with other practitioners and developers of introspective tools, and provide training to researchers on how to use introspection to study the mind effectively and safely. Our goal is to develop and distribute introspective methods that could serve as the foundation for developing a new subfield of introspection research.
$145,488 spentof which $60,691 as grants38% of program spendingBottlenecks - science and technology have the potential to empower humanity with new knowledge and new tools with which to improve the world around us. Yet, scientific institutions are frequently not as functional as society needs them to be. Even as the number of researchers and amount of money spent on research increases, in many places, fields simply aren't making fast enough progress. By combining our understanding of science and people, we aim to discern and address the social and institutional, not just technical, obstacles to progress across a variety of fields-such as geothermal, supersonic flight, and psychology-and coordinate efforts to overcome them. Our bottlenecks program consists of both events and research. The events provide a venue for bringing together researchers, funders, and project leaders to think and talk about where the real bottlenecks are, and our publications communicate the conclusions we reach.
$26,800 spentof which $11,180 as grants7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $382,863.
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 2017 to 2018, from $128k to $185k (+44%).
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.
100% of LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Geoffrey Taylor Anders Ii
CEO & chair & treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $185k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC’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
LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 59% · 2021 96% · 2022 61% · 2023 73% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC'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 $215k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $889k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC: 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 LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC?
- LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,451 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($520,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,104,451 in grants to LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEVERAGE RESEARCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 12 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