California · Nonprofit
Minerva Foundation
Minerva Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Intervalien Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $503k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $25M
What Minerva Foundation does
Program
Minerva Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable foundation, dedicated to promoting original and challenging approaches to the study of the visual brain.The Foundation encourages original research which leads to the understanding of brain and visual function, and recognize this effort through our annual Golden Brain Award. We also hold an International Conference on Neuroesthetics to shed light on the elusive experience of both the creator and the beholder of art in all its possible forms. Each year Minerva Foundation confers a Golden Brain on an investigator in the forefront of research for original discovery of significant findings of vision and the brain.
$431,309 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $31M to $22M (−29%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Minerva 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Minerva Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Minerva Foundation
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Minerva 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 Minerva Foundation?
- Minerva Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Intervalien Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Minerva Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Minerva Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Minerva Foundation?
- Intervalien Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minerva 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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