Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$2,553,494

Total expenses

$2,530,263

Contributions and grants received

$0

Grants paid

$1,850,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$2,553,494

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$52,165,222

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,225,000

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$50,940,222

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,225,760

Management and general expenses

$304,503

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,225,760

Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE CHARLES E. KAUFMAN FOUNDATION PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, AND PHYSICS AT PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. WITH THE AID OF A SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, THE FOUNDATION AWARDS INTEGRATED RESEARCH-EDUCATION GRANTS, NEW INVESTIGATOR AND NEW INITIATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS. IN 2024, GRANTS WERE AWARDED FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES GOING TO INNOVATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AT PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITIES.SEE CONTINUATION ON SCHEDULE O.INTEGRATED RESEARCH EDUCATION GRANTS PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH THAT FOCUSES ON DIRECT ENGAGEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ALONG SIDE INNOVATIVE SCIENTISTS IN BASIC, FUNDAMENTAL, HANDS-ON RESEARCH THAT COULD LEAD TO NEW DISCOVERIES AND PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS. TWO INTEGRATED RESEARCH EDUCATION GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO:1) UNDERSTAND THE PREY-CAPTURE MECHANISM OF THE CARNIVOROUS PLANT DROSERA BY ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AND MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES TO BUILD A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL2) UTILIZE CECROPINS, SHORT PEPTIDES WITH ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE PRODUCED BY INSECTS, FOR ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY AND STABILITY BY ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A LAB COURSE TO DESIGN AND TEST STABLE DERIVATIVES OF CECROPINS. NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANTS PROVIDE RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR INNOVATIVE BASIC SCIENTISTS AS THEY TRANSITION INTO AN ACADEMIC POSITION AS A NEW INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR. THE FOUNDATION AWARDED NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANTS THAT ADDRESS CORE PRINCIPLES IN BIOLOGY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO:1) FOCUS ON AN OVERLOOKED GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION MECHANISM THAT WAS DISCOVERED IN THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR'S LAB IN WHICH RNAS REGULATE THEIR OWN PRODUCTION AND BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW WIDELY THIS MECHANISM IS USED IN CELLS.2) DEVELOP THE THEORY BEHIND A FUNDAMENTALLY NEW AREA OF QUANTUM MAGNETISM CALLED ALTERMAGNETISM, A NEWLY DISCOVERED THIRD TYPE OF MAGNETISM DISTINCT FROM FERROMAGNETISM AND ANTIFERROMAGNETISM.3) USE MACHINE LEARNING TO AID IN THE CREATION OF BETTER SOLVENT MIXTURES THAT BOOST REACTION EFFICIENCY AND ARE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY.4) UNDERSTAND HOW CONFLICTS BETWEEN DNA REPLICATION MACHINERY AND TRANSCRIPTION MACHINERY ARE PREVENTED TO AVOID GENOME BREAKAGE AND HOW CONFLICTS ARE RESOLVED WITH DNA REPAIR MACHINERY WHEN GENOME BREAKAGE OCCURS.5) INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL ADVANTAGE OF BIOFILM GENETIC DIVERSITY TO SURVIVE TRANSITIONS FROM ONE ENVIRONMENT TO ANOTHER AND BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DIVERSITY.6) UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF ASTROCYTES, NON-NEURONAL BRAIN CELLS, IN SENSORY PROCESSING AND ATTENTION SHIFTS DURING MOVEMENT BY STUDYING APPROACH AND AVOIDANCE BEHAVIORS IN MICE.NEW INITIATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS STIMULATE EXISTING INVESTIGATORS WITH STRONG RECORDS OF RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATIONS THAT FACILITATE INNOVATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TOWARD A COMMON RESEARCH QUESTION AND THAT REQUIRE EXPERTISE BEYOND THAT OF ANY SINGLE RESEARCHER. NEW INITIATIVE GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO:1) UNDERSTAND THE ENERGY CONSTRAINTS AT PLAY IN A NEW KIND OF LIQUID-LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE SEPERATION THAT WAS RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR'S LAB.2) UNDERSTAND THE IMMUNE CONSEQUENCES OF THE UPTAKE OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM THE BACTERIUM STREPTOCOCCUS PNEAMONIAE BY MAMMALIAN CELL AND INVESTIGATE WHETHER THIS IS A CLOSED LOOP IN WHICH ONLY MAMMALIAN CELLS UPTAKE THE BACTERIUM'S EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES OR WHETHER BACTERIA ALSO UPTAKE MAMMALIAN VESICLES.3) STUDY THE SPACE AROUND MERGING BLACK HOLES BY UTILIZING DATA FROM THE LASER INTERFEROMETER GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE (LIGO) OBSERVATORY COUPLED WITH ADVANCED SIMULATIONS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

  Expenses $2,225,760 · Grants $1,850,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

  $600,000

  NEW INITIATIVE AND NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  $600,000

  NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

  $450,000

  NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY

  $100,000

  NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

  $100,000

  NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

  501(C)(3) · COMMUNITY FOUNDATION · PA

• PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION

  501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION OF THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION · PA

  Directly controlled by THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

• THE FORBES FUND

  501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION OF THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION · PA

  Directly controlled by THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

• THE JACK G BUNCHER CHARITABLE FUND FOR THE PGH FDTN

  501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION OF THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION · PA

  Directly controlled by THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

• NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES

  501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION OF THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION · PA

  Directly controlled by THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

13 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202503179349305390

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