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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by GRUBER FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$6,722,625
Total expenses
$7,265,877
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$6,713,349
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$6,722,625
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$230,349,306
Total liabilities, end of year
$455,657
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$229,893,649
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$7,156,301
Management and general expenses
$109,576
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$7,156,301

Program services were 98.5% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $6,722,625 · excluded $6,722,625

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $4,832,349 · program services $4,832,349

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $1,300,000 · program services $1,300,000

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $581,000 · program services $581,000

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $345,276 · program services $249,494 · management and general $95,782 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $7,009 · program services $7,009

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,708 · program services $1,896 · management and general $812

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $41,591 · program services $29,114 · management and general $12,477

  • 17 · Travel

    total $104,114 · program services $103,609 · management and general $505

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $29,786 · program services $29,786

  • 24a · Other expenses: Videography

    total $13,070 · program services $13,070

  • 24b · Other expenses: Medals

    total $8,974 · program services $8,974

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $645,478 · end of year $103,445

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $566,385 · end of year $343,652

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $0

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $139,123,464 · end of year $140,160,900

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $83,515,361 · end of year $89,741,309

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $466 · end of year $1,685

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $680,957 · end of year $453,972

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $223,169,265 · end of year $229,893,649

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The gruber foundation honors individuals in the fields of cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights, whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Honor and advance scientific research, support scientific scholarship, and further global justice and women's rights.

  • The Gruber Foundation ("The Foundation") supports three major initiatives: The Gruber International Prize Program, The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights, and the Gruber Science Fellowship program. The Gruber International Prize Program, which awarded $2,000,000 in prizes during the year, recognizes excellence in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, and Neuroscience. The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights is a Yale University program consisting of four core components: 1) the Global Constitutionalism Seminar, 2) the Gruber Distinguished Global Justice and Women's Rights Lectures, 3) the Gruber Global Justice and Women's Rights Fellowships, and 4) the gruber project for global justice and women's rights which provides clinical and experiential learning initiatives at Yale Law School that are consistent with the principles and ideals of the program. The Gruber Science Fellowship program provides annual fellowships to Yale University graduate students studying and conducting research in the basic life sciences, as well as in cosmology and astrophysics. The Foundation provided grants of $4,530,349 to Yale University of which $1,200,000 supported the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights and $3,330,349 supported the Gruber Science Fellowship program. In addition, $183,000 of fellowships and other grants were paid during the fiscal year.

    Expenses $7,156,301 · Grants $6,713,349

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Steven Wilkinson

    President and Director

    Total calculated
    $670,584
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $596,162
    Other
    $74,422
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $581,744 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $14,418 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $37,245 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $37,177 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $670,584 related

  • B Waring Partridge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Joan E O'Neill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $892,601
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $817,363
    Other
    $75,238
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 51 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $740,975 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $76,388 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $37,245 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $37,993 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $892,601 related

  • Patricia Gruber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Peter Salovey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,453,342
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $2,335,529
    Other
    $117,813
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 52 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $1,552,669 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $782,860 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $37,245 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $80,568 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $2,453,342 related

  • Elizabeth Bilodeau

    VP, Treasurer, and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $215,737
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $190,807
    Other
    $24,930
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $190,807 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $20,345 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $4,585 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $215,737 related

  • Benjamin Polak

    Former President and Director

    Total calculated
    $559,835
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $496,033
    Other
    $63,802
    Hours/week
    0 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $473,533 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $22,500 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $37,245 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,557 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $559,835 related

  • Pericles Lewis

    Former President and Director

    Total calculated
    $666,944
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $539,793
    Other
    $127,151
    Hours/week
    0 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $517,293 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $22,500 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $37,245 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $89,906 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $666,944 related

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

Answered yes

  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Schedule J, Part I, Line 4b Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
A listed person participated in a supplemental nonqualified retirement plan during the calendar year 2023 as described below: Yale University, a supported organization, agreed to supplement the retirement income for a director of the Gruber Foundation, in his capacity as a Yale employee, by making an annual contribution to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan, subject to vesting conditions based on continuing service to the University and adjusted for earnings based on positive performance of the endowment. A portion of this benefit vested in 2023 and is reflected in Schedule J, Part II, Column (B)(III).
Schedule J, Part I Lines 1-3
BECAUSE THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS DO NOT RECEIVE ANY COMPENSATION FROM THE GRUBER FOUNDATION, LINES 1-3 WERE LEFT BLANK.
Schedule J, Part II, Column (F) Compensation reported in prior form 990
This amount is also included in Column (E). It is, therefore, double reported in part II and does not represent additional compensation.

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

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.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Related partnerships

Part III: related organizations taxable as a partnership, with the filer's share.

  • See Part VII

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

  • See Part VII

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
14 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202541349349303824

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