New York · Nonprofit
LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN)
LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,897,402 to it, the largest being Salice Family Foundation ($501,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Lymphatic Education & Research Network Inc (Le&Rn) does
Mission
The organization's mission is to fight lymphatic diseases and lymphedema through education, research and advocacy. The organization seeks to accelerate the prevention, treatment, and cure of lymphatic diseases while bringing patients and medical professionals together to address the unmet needs surrounding lymphatic disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Some activities of the organization during 2025 include the following: LE&RN continued to expand programs to meet the goals of the expanded mission of fighting lymphatic disease through education, research, and advocacy. LE&RN continued its grant program, which allows young investigators to attend conferences focused on lymphatic research. LE&RN continued its educational and awareness outreach programs targeting academia, government, industry, and the medical and patient communities. LE&RN continued its monthly virtual symposium series, which brings the world's foremost authorities in lymphatic disease and lymphedema to patients, their families, and professionals. LE&RN updated its website and provided daily social media posts and monthly newsletters featuring significant events in the field. LE&RN produced six issues of Lymphatic Research and Biology, an international, peer-reviewedbiomedical journal providing a forum for the exchange of cutting-edge scientific developments in lymphatic science and medicine. LE&RN secured ongoing support from the Congressional and National Institutes of Health for lymphatic research. LE&RN continued the LE&RN/LymphNotes Lymphedema Scholarship…
$1,442,732 spentof which $23,618 as grants$1,169,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,442,732.
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 2020 to 2021, from $654k to $3.9M (+495%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% · 2024 24% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
William Repicci
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $55k → $158k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 60% · 2019 82% · 2020 23% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
26% of LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 48 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN): 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 LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN)?
- LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,897,402 to it, the largest being Salice Family Foundation ($501,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,897,402 in grants to LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN), 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN)?
- Salice Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $501,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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