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THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING

THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $700,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ($700,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$403k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$700k
Net assets
$7.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What The Lennox and Lombroso Fund for Research and Training does

Mission

Epilepsy education and research

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Various awards and fellowships given to individuals to promote the continuing efforts of medical research to find a cure for epilepsy.

    $257,809 spentof which $237,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $257,809.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($107k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 294 ($316k) Expenses 106 ($25k) Net assets 112 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 906 ($974k) Expenses 647 ($151k) Net assets 142 ($4.9M)2020 Revenue 149 ($160k) Expenses 746 ($174k) Net assets 146 ($5.1M)2022 Revenue 289 ($311k) Expenses 820 ($192k) Net assets 155 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 147 ($158k) Expenses 1030 ($241k) Net assets 165 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 462 ($497k) Expenses 1048 ($245k) Net assets 186 ($6.4M)2025 Revenue 375 ($403k) Expenses 1103 ($258k) Net assets 203 ($7.1M)
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Revenue (375)Expenses (1103)Net assets (203)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.4M to $7.8M (+20%).

$3.6M
$4.0M
$4.9M
$5.2M
$5.5M
$5.9M
$6.4M
$7.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’17
$292k
’18
$823k
’19
−$14k
’20
$119k
’22
−$83k
’23
$252k
’24
$146k
’25
2.1
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.

Board chair

Frances E Jensen Md

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0·+0+0+1
No longer listed·000·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
$700k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING’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 THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Epilepsy Society · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING: 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 THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING?
THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $700,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ($700,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $700,000 in grants to THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING.
Who is the largest funder of THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING?
AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LENNOX AND LOMBROSO FUND FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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