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INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ETHICAL RESEARCH INC

EIN 22-2628153 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025
$409,060
Expenses 2025
$174,387

Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D012
Classification
1000
Street
444 N WELLS ST STE 406

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

This address is a suite or unit (STE 406). 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 · 2025

Mission

TO ADVANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN-RELEVANT,NON-ANIMAL ALTERNATIVES IN RESEARCH, TESTING AND EDUCATION.

  • INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ETHICAL RESEARCH, INC. HAS FUNDED 6 MEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT UTILIZE HUMAN-RELEVANT, NON-ANIMAL ALTERNATIVES AS THEIR TEST MODELS. THE PROJECTS MAY HELP COUNTLESS PATIENTS WITHOUT HARMING ANIMALS.

    Expenses $123,343 · Grants $95,921

  • IFER IS INCREASINGLY INVOLVED IN FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADVANCE THE MISSION OF REPLACING ANIMAL TESTING IN RESEARCH. THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE COMMITTED TO ADVANCEMENTS THAT BRING THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY CLOSER TO THE ELIMINATION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH. MOREOVER, FUNDING THESE ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDES IFER WITH THE TWIN OPPORTUNITIES OF RECRUITING EXPERTS FOR ITS SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD AS WELL AS EXPANDING THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF FELLOWSHIP APPLICANTS.

  • IMPS: THE INTERNATIONAL MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (IMPS) IS A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND UTILITY OF MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL DEVICES. SOMETIMES CALLED ORGANS-ON-A-CHIP", MPS DEVICES MIMIC BODILY ORGANS, AND IN DOING SO THEY INCREASINGLY PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH. CURRENTLY, NO OTHER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION EXCEEDS THE IMPORTANCE AND REACH IN THE MPS FIELD. SPONSORING AND EXHIBITING AT THE IMPS SUMMIT IS CENTRAL TO IFER'S EFFORT TO SUPPORT THE REPLACEMENT OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH.

    Expenses $9,750

  • BMES: THE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY IS A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO ADVANCING ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO BIOMEDICAL CHALLENGES. BMES' RELEVANCE TO IFER'S MISSION LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE WORK OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS HAS CONTRIBUTED MIGHTILY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEVICES, SUCH AS ORGANS-ON-A-CHIP, THAT MIMIC BODILY FUNCTIONS. THUS, WHILE NOT ALL BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS FOCUS ON REPLACING ANIMALS IN RESEARCH, THE WORK OF MANY IN THIS FIELD DOVETAILS WITH RESEARCHERS WHO ARE SEEKING TO REPLACE ANIMALS IN RESEARCH. SPONSORING AND EXHIBITING AT THE BMES CONFERENCE BEARS DIRECTLY ON IFER'S EFFORT TO ALIGN ITSELF WITH SCIENTISTS WHOSE WORK CONTRIBUTES TO THE REPLACEMENT OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH.

    Expenses $9,400

  • WC: WORLD CONGRESS ON ALTERNATIVES AND ANIMAL USE IN THE LIFE SCIENCES. THE WC IS A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION DEVOTED TO THE REPLACEMENT, REDUCTION, AND/OR REFINEMENT IN THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH AND TESTING. MANY WITHIN THE WC SHARE IFER'S COMMITMENT TO REPLACE ALL ANIMAL TESTING WITH RELEVANT HUMAN MODELS. THUS, SUPPORTING WC'S CONFERENCE ALLOWS IFER TO PLACE ITSELF IN THE FOREFRONT OF RESEARCHERS WHO SEEK TO ELIMINATE ALL ANIMAL TESTING.

    Expenses $2,500

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kenneth Kandaras

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $91,583
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $91,583
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

  • John H Scheid Jr

    SECRETARY AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mary Cunniff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sylvia Decker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tom Moore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Pam Osenkowski PhD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $409,060
    Expenses
    $174,387
    Contributions
    $389,347
    Grants paid
    $95,921
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $310,083
    Expenses
    $226,980
    Contributions
    $276,529
    Grants paid
    $184,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $217,434
    Expenses
    $189,181
    Contributions
    $202,520
    Grants paid
    $142,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $287,613
    Expenses
    $124,028
    Contributions
    $276,170
    Grants paid
    $93,000

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
    $312,624
    Expenses
    $101,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $830,510

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $257,967
    Expenses
    $113,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $605,029

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY

    $250,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ALTERNATIVES THAT REPLACE THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH, TESTING AND EDUCATION.

  • NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY

    $200,000

    2022 TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ALTERNATIVES THAT REPLACE THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH, TESTING AND EDUCATION.

  • NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY

    $150,000

    2024 TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ALTERNATIVES THAT REPLACE THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH, TESTING AND EDUCATION.

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 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.