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THE METHUSELAH FOUNDATION

EIN 54-2040344 SPRINGFIELD, VA

Revenue 2024
$1,975,510
Expenses 2024
$2,634,224

Program services were 91.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T12
Classification
1000
Street
8021 FLINT ST

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

METHUSELAH FOUNDATION WORKS TO ACCELERATE TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS IN HEALTHY HUMAN LIFE EXTENSION THROUGH REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AND NUTRITION, RESEARCH INITIATIVES, START-UP INCUBATION, AND OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGES.

  • SENESCENCE: TO ADVANCE RESEARCH AND CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT TARGETING THE BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF AGING. THIS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON IDENTIFYING AND VALIDATING MULTI-MODAL BIOMARKERS OF SENESCENCE, DEVELOPING PHARMACEUTICAL AND LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONS FOR PRACTITIONERS, AND THE CREATION OF SOFTWARE, DATA, AND PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR PATIENTS, PRACTITIONERS, AND RESEARCHERS.

    Expenses $2,159,323 · Grants $456,237 · Revenue $398,353

  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: ACCELERATING THE CREATION OF FUNCTIONAL HUMAN TISSUES AND MODELS OF HUMAN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY MODELING. THIS PROGRAM FOSTERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF VALIDATED IN VITRO AND IN SILICO TISSUE MODELS VIA RESEARCH, START-UP INCUBATION, AND PUBLIC COLLABORATIONS, INCLUDING MANAGEMENT OF NASA'S VASCULAR TISSUE CHALLENGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMAL FREE PRECISION MEDICINE CHALLENGE.

    Expenses $160,068 · Revenue $5,000

  • NUTRITION: TO FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL, BIOLOGICALLY ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS FOR FOOD PRODUCTION. THIS PROGRAM DRIVES INNOVATION THROUGH INITIATIVES LIKE NASA'S DEEP SPACE FOOD CHALLENGE, AN INTERNATIONAL OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGE AIMED AT CREATING EFFICIENT, DYNAMIC FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING LIFE IN DEEP SPACE AND IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY ON EARTH.

    Expenses $78,502

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • DAVID GOBEL

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $296,362
    From this org
    $260,861
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,501
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,861
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,501
    Filer's total
    $296,362

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
    $1,975,510
    Expenses
    $2,634,224
    Contributions
    $71,684
    Grants paid
    $456,237
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $129,367,180
    Expenses
    $123,266,752
    Contributions
    $163,572,564
    Grants paid
    $4,432,149
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,395,694
    Expenses
    $6,545,508
    Contributions
    $2,206,743
    Grants paid
    $4,752,097

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
    $14,799,805
    Expenses
    $3,499,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,792,317

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,029,455
    Expenses
    $3,489,654
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,031,822

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $91,031
    Expenses
    $466,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,494,684

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $146,716
    Expenses
    $528,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,855,222

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,408,588
    Expenses
    $742,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,982,287

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $623,757
    Expenses
    $757,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,601,716

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.

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Grants received

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

  • METHUSELAH FUNDS LLC

    INVESTMENT · INVESTMENTS · VA · 63.68% owned · share of income -$2,184 · share of assets $65,544

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.