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HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION

EIN 20-4559210 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2024
$3,352,342
Expenses 2024
$7,276,738

Program services were 69.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H129
Classification
1200
Street
40 W 57TH ST STE 1440

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

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1440). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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

OUR MISSION IS TWO-FOLD: FIRST AND FOREMOST HDRF FUNDS THE MOST INNOVATIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINS, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION AND ITS RELATED MOOD DISORDERS BIPOLAR DISORDER, POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, ANXIETY DISORDER AND SUICIDE. OUR SECOND GOAL IS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF DEPRESSION AS A MEDICAL ILLNESS AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE FACTS OF DEPRESSION. WE EDUCATE AND INFORM IN ORDER TO HELP REMOVE THE STIGMA OF DEPRESSION. ********************************************************************* *********************************************************************

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FOUNDATION FUNDS RESEARCH TO FIND THE ROOT CAUSES OF AND NEW AND BETTER TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION, AS WELL AS PROGRAMS TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT THE ILLNESS.

  • THE FOUNDATION WAS INCORPORATED TO FUND THE MOST INNOVATIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINS, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION AND ITS RELATED MOOD DISORDERS- BIPOLAR DISORDER, POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, ANXIETY DISORDER AND SUICIDE. ******************************************************************

    Expenses $5,086,339 · Grants $4,469,123

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.

  • Louisa Benton

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $301,810
    From this org
    $301,810
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $252,110
    Bonus
    $49,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $18,109
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,826
    Filer's total
    $331,745

  • Audrey B Gruss

    CHAIRMAN & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Dr Harold W Koenigsberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Zislin

    VICE PRESIDENT / TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Steven P Roose

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Robert Michels

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr David Kahn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martin D Gruss

    SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bhash Lalta

    VICE PRESIDENT / SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Courtney Keemss

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,352,342
    Expenses
    $7,276,738
    Contributions
    $2,131,404
    Grants paid
    $4,469,123
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,671,993
    Expenses
    $8,469,439
    Contributions
    $2,107,248
    Grants paid
    $5,777,760
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,383,561
    Expenses
    $7,749,109
    Contributions
    $1,683,151
    Grants paid
    $5,342,105

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,935,757
    Expenses
    $8,320,753
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,922,850

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,866,948
    Expenses
    $5,907,756
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,831,359

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $38,115,467
    Expenses
    $6,958,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,527,865

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,979,799
    Expenses
    $6,279,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,687,228

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,331,620
    Expenses
    $4,751,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,857,240

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

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    INVESTMENTS · DE · 29.19% owned · share of income $1,218,644 · share of assets $38,465,000

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • GRUSS & CO LLC

    LLC · MANAGEMENT · FL · 0% owned · share of income $0 · share of assets $0

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.