Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$3,845,550

Total expenses

$3,850,852

Contributions and grants received

$3,845,550

Contributions, gifts and grants paid

$3,247,889

Fair market value of assets, end of year

$20,286

Listed in Part VIII

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))

$3,359,310

As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.

Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)

$3,359,310

The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

• Northwestern University

  $110,310

  Chicago, IL

  Funds Transferred from Van Andel. Regulation mechanism of thermosensitive receptors in nervous system. Principal Investigator: Juan Du, Ph.D.

• Carnegie Mellon University

  $100,000

  Pittsburgh, PA

  Investigating Circuits and Mechanisms that Support Long-Lasting Recovery of Movement in Dopamine Depleted Mice. Principal Investigator: Aryn Gittis, Ph.D.

• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

  $100,000

  Seattle, WA

  Adipocyte-brain mitochondrial signaling and its impacts on brain function. Principal Investigator: Akhila Rajan,Ph.D.

• Mass General Brigham Incorporated

  $100,000

  Boston, MA

  The Neurobiology of Glioma: Understanding Malignant Neural Circuits Instructing Tumor Growth. Principal Investigator: Humsa Venkatesh,Ph.D.

• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  $100,000

  Chicago, IL

  Dissecting the Gut-brain Dynamics Underlying Anorexia. Principal Investigator: Lisa Beutler

• Regents of the University of California

  $100,000

  Berkeley, CA

  Neurotensin mediated regulation of hedonic feeding behavior and obesity. Principal Investigator: Stephan Lammel Ph.D.

• Regents of the University of California

  $100,000

  Los Angeles, CA

  Characterizing the Context: The Role of the Microenvironment in Shaping Human Glioblastoma. Principal Investigators: Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D. and Kunal Patel, M.D.

• Regents of the University of Michigan

  $100,000

  Ann Arbor, MI

  In vivo Reprogramming of Astrocytes into Neurons for Treating Parkinson's Disease. Principal Investigator: Thanh Hoang, Ph.D.

• St Jude Children's Research Hospital

  $100,000

  Memphis, TN

  Identifying Brain Circuits that Connect Respiration and Cognitive State. Principal Investigator: Lindsey Schwarz

• Stanford University School of Medicine

  $100,000

  Palo Alto, CA

  Neuron-to-OPC synapses in adaptive and maladaptive myelination. Principal Investigator: Juliet K. Knowles, MD, PhD

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Provenance

Return type

form_990_pf

Tax year

2024

Filed

14 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202543189349104774

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