CHARLES E KAUFMAN FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T11

Classification

1000

Street

912 FT DUQUESNE BLVD FLOOR 10

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• JACK G BUNCHER CHARITABLE FUND FORTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

  EIN 20-4393147

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE CHARLES E. KAUFMAN FOUNDATION PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, AND PHYSICS AT PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. WITH THE AID OF A SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, THE FOUNDATION AWARDS INTEGRATED RESEARCH-EDUCATION GRANTS, NEW INVESTIGATOR AND NEW INITIATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS. IN 2024, GRANTS WERE AWARDED FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES GOING TO INNOVATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AT PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITIES.SEE CONTINUATION ON SCHEDULE O.INTEGRATED RESEARCH EDUCATION GRANTS PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH THAT FOCUSES ON DIRECT ENGAGEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ALONG SIDE INNOVATIVE SCIENTISTS IN BASIC, FUNDAMENTAL, HANDS-ON RESEARCH THAT COULD LEAD TO NEW DISCOVERIES AND PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS. TWO INTEGRATED RESEARCH EDUCATION GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO:1) UNDERSTAND THE PREY-CAPTURE MECHANISM OF THE CARNIVOROUS PLANT DROSERA BY ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AND MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES TO BUILD A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL2) UTILIZE CECROPINS, SHORT PEPTIDES WITH ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE PRODUCED BY INSECTS, FOR ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY AND STABILITY BY ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A LAB COURSE TO DESIGN AND TEST STABLE DERIVATIVES OF CECROPINS. NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANTS PROVIDE RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR INNOVATIVE BASIC SCIENTISTS AS THEY TRANSITION INTO AN ACADEMIC POSITION AS A NEW INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR. THE FOUNDATION AWARDED NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANTS THAT ADDRESS CORE PRINCIPLES IN BIOLOGY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO:1) FOCUS ON AN OVERLOOKED GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION MECHANISM THAT WAS DISCOVERED IN THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR'S LAB IN WHICH RNAS REGULATE THEIR OWN PRODUCTION AND BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW WIDELY THIS MECHANISM IS USED IN CELLS.2) DEVELOP THE THEORY BEHIND A FUNDAMENTALLY NEW AREA OF QUANTUM MAGNETISM CALLED ALTERMAGNETISM, A NEWLY DISCOVERED THIRD TYPE OF MAGNETISM DISTINCT FROM FERROMAGNETISM AND ANTIFERROMAGNETISM.3) USE MACHINE LEARNING TO AID IN THE CREATION OF BETTER SOLVENT MIXTURES THAT BOOST REACTION EFFICIENCY AND ARE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY.4) UNDERSTAND HOW CONFLICTS BETWEEN DNA REPLICATION MACHINERY AND TRANSCRIPTION MACHINERY ARE PREVENTED TO AVOID GENOME BREAKAGE AND HOW CONFLICTS ARE RESOLVED WITH DNA REPAIR MACHINERY WHEN GENOME BREAKAGE OCCURS.5) INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL ADVANTAGE OF BIOFILM GENETIC DIVERSITY TO SURVIVE TRANSITIONS FROM ONE ENVIRONMENT TO ANOTHER AND BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DIVERSITY.6) UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF ASTROCYTES, NON-NEURONAL BRAIN CELLS, IN SENSORY PROCESSING AND ATTENTION SHIFTS DURING MOVEMENT BY STUDYING APPROACH AND AVOIDANCE BEHAVIORS IN MICE.NEW INITIATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS STIMULATE EXISTING INVESTIGATORS WITH STRONG RECORDS OF RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATIONS THAT FACILITATE INNOVATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TOWARD A COMMON RESEARCH QUESTION AND THAT REQUIRE EXPERTISE BEYOND THAT OF ANY SINGLE RESEARCHER. NEW INITIATIVE GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO:1) UNDERSTAND THE ENERGY CONSTRAINTS AT PLAY IN A NEW KIND OF LIQUID-LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE SEPERATION THAT WAS RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR'S LAB.2) UNDERSTAND THE IMMUNE CONSEQUENCES OF THE UPTAKE OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM THE BACTERIUM STREPTOCOCCUS PNEAMONIAE BY MAMMALIAN CELL AND INVESTIGATE WHETHER THIS IS A CLOSED LOOP IN WHICH ONLY MAMMALIAN CELLS UPTAKE THE BACTERIUM'S EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES OR WHETHER BACTERIA ALSO UPTAKE MAMMALIAN VESICLES.3) STUDY THE SPACE AROUND MERGING BLACK HOLES BY UTILIZING DATA FROM THE LASER INTERFEROMETER GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE (LIGO) OBSERVATORY COUPLED WITH ADVANCED SIMULATIONS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

  Expenses $2,225,760 · Grants $1,850,000

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.

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

  $2,553,494

  Expenses

  $2,530,263

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $1,850,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $779,692

  Expenses

  $2,368,792

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $1,788,963

• 2022

  Revenue

  $804,636

  Expenses

  $2,569,240

  Contributions

  $0

  Grants paid

  $2,000,000

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

  $4,179,533

  Expenses

  $2,457,976

  Assets (EOY)

  $55,745,262

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,254,454

  Expenses

  $2,459,594

  Assets (EOY)

  $48,597,818

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,520,027

  Expenses

  $2,462,044

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,203,261

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,957,092

  Expenses

  $2,482,231

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,058,387

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,688,727

  Expenses

  $2,361,962

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,555,946

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $983,299

  Expenses

  $2,285,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,296,802

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,089,957

  Expenses

  $2,529,307

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,643,973

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,628,869

  Expenses

  $2,570,612

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,856,616

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,012,438

  Expenses

  $2,107,008

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,045,155

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $348,317

  Assets (EOY)

  $41,175,265

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

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  $889,149

  2023 · NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

  $600,000

  2022 · NEW INITIATIVE AND NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

  $600,000

  2024 · NEW INITIATIVE AND NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  $600,000

  2024 · NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

  $450,000

  2022 · NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

  $450,000

  2024 · NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

  $450,000

  2023 · NEW INITIATIVE AND NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE

  $300,000

  2022 · INTEGRATED RESEARCH EDUCATION GRANTS

• CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

  $150,000

  2022 · NEW INITIATIVE AND NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  $150,000

  2022 · NEW INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.

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