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AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION

EIN 41-1717098 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Revenue 2025
$7,843,535
Expenses 2025
$11,025,024

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H96Z
Classification
1000
Street
2909 WAYZATA BLVD 62124

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).

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.

  • MICHELLE HERITAGE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $400,075
    From this org
    $365,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,275
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $325,500
    Bonus
    $40,300
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $34,275
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $400,075

  • HEATHER HEART

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $170,000
    From this org
    $170,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,000
    Bonus
    $2,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $170,000

  • JULIA MIGLETS-NELSON

    DIRECTOR, RESEARCH PROGRAMS & PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $143,175
    From this org
    $131,435
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,740
    Hours/week
    40

  • KIMBERLY HOWARD

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $128,462
    From this org
    $128,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $462
    Hours/week
    40

  • SEAN SANSIVERI

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • BEN LENAIL

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALYX B PORTER UMPHREY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RALPH R LESLIE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHYLLIS C ZEE

    EX OFFICIO VOTING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PAUL J CAIRNS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MERIT CUDKOWICZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID W DODICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHRISTINA M FRANCIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JACQUELINE FRENCH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • FRANCES JENSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRUCE KAHNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • THABELE LESLIE-MAZWI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MATTHEW S PICARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ALFREDO QUIONES-HINOJOSA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RICHARD RANSOHOFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JOANNE L SMIKLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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 — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,843,535
    Expenses
    $11,025,024
    Contributions
    $7,608,054
    Grants paid
    $8,135,005
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,240,028
    Expenses
    $5,254,803
    Contributions
    $5,775,187
    Grants paid
    $2,384,275
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,383,820
    Expenses
    $4,956,400
    Contributions
    $10,120,592
    Grants paid
    $2,401,988
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,946,773
    Expenses
    $7,713,651
    Contributions
    $6,002,262
    Grants paid
    $5,297,664

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.

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.

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 10 September 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.