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ETH ZURICH FOUNDATION USA INC

EIN 84-3180130 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2024
$655,784
Expenses 2024
$1,955,718

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U12
Classification
1000
Street
88 PINE STREET 20TH FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE PRIMARY PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS FORMED ARE (1) TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE SUPPORT FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHMETICS, AS CARRIED OUT THROUGH THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ZURICH ("SFIT") AND OTHER LEADING INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES FOR TECHNOLOGY AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES; AND (2) TO FINANCE, IN WHOLE OR PART, PARTICULAR PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES OF SFIT AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE DEEMED BY THE FOUNDATION TO BE NECESSARY FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FOUNDATION'S CHARITABLE EFFORTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PRIMARY PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS FORMED ARE (1) TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE SUPPORT FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS, AS CARRIED OUT THROUGH THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE IN ZURICH ("SFIT") AND OTHER LEADING INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES FOR TECHNOLOGY AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES; AND (2) TO FINANCE, IN WHOLE OR PART, PARTICULAR PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES OF SFIT AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE DEEMED BY THE FOUNDATION TO BE NECESSARY FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FOUNDATION'S CHARITABLE EFFORTS.

  • TO ENCOURAGE SUPPORT FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS, AND TO FINANCE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, PARTICULAR PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES OF ETH ZURICH AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS.

    Expenses $1,955,718 · Grants $1,928,349 · Revenue $655,783

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Shana Sturla

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Chris Luebkeman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Daniel Wuersch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Donald Tillman

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Remo Spuhler

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Alex Hochuli

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $655,784
    Expenses
    $1,955,718
    Contributions
    $655,784
    Grants paid
    $1,928,349
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,579,724
    Expenses
    $630
    Contributions
    $1,579,724
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,226,843
    Expenses
    $1,223,740
    Contributions
    $1,226,843
    Grants paid
    $1,223,625

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $601,486
    Expenses
    $713,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,957
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $132,559
    Expenses
    $15
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,544

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.