Accepts applications
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Accepts applications
The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
- How to apply
The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2024 return.
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
This is a count from past returns. It does not say the foundation will consider a new request. How it is counted: names are compared as written on the returns, without "The" at the start, without endings such as "Inc" or "LLC", and without spaces and punctuation. A recipient also counts as already listed when our records link it to the same organization as an earlier recipient, or when its name is almost the same as an earlier name (a trigram similarity of 0.8 or more, where 1 means identical). The state on the grant row is not compared. Grants that the foundation marked as paid to an individual, such as a scholarship, are left out of both numbers, and no count is shown when most of its grants are marked that way. A person whom the foundation did not mark as an individual is still counted as a recipient. A recipient can still look new when its name is written very differently from year to year, and two different recipients with almost the same name can be counted as one.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Giving by year
Total assets by year
| Year | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Giving | Assets | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 990-PF | $29,142,107 | $18,290,785 | $13,226,677 | $241,476,977 |
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
Recipient focus areas
Where recipients are
Based on the 36% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDERBOULDER, CO | PHONONIC CRYSTAL SUSPENSIONS FOR PRECISION MECHANICAL SENSING | $250,000 | 2020 | |
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Daniel Linzer | CEO/President & Board Member | 38.00 | $407,500 |
| Mr Daniel Gasch | CFO/Vice President | 38.00 | $273,000 |
| Dr Peter Dorhout | Chair of the Board | 2.00 | $0 |
| Mr James Denaut | Treasurer & Board Member |
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
| $237,146,046 |
| FY2023 | 990-PF | $1,280,875 | $16,599,121 | $12,600,023 | $222,065,057 | $219,211,693 |
| FY2022 | 990-PF | $7,402,998 | $13,673,482 | $12,045,362 | $195,484,115 | $189,348,028 |
| FY2021 | 990-PF | $26,138,153 | $16,447,694 | $9,332,853 | $242,008,144 | $239,051,257 |
| FY2020 | 990-PF | $4,524,753 | $12,375,756 | $8,664,520 | $216,769,898 | $215,560,622 |
| Developing Mathematical Models for the Formation of New Collaborations at Conferences |
| $193,142 |
| 2024 |
| University of South FloridaTampa, FL | Strain Manipulation of Charge and Spin Dynamics in 2D Magnets | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI | Unveiling Cosmic Treasures: Exploring the secrets of astromineralogy with X-ray imaging spectroscopy | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of ToledoToledo, OH | Doing Our Homework: Direct Tests of Black Hole Accretion Rate Prescriptions | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of California RiversideRiverside, CA | Skeletal Editing of Silicon Nanostructures & Student-Created Social Media Videos to Close the Achievement Gap | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Case Western Reserve UniversityCleveland, OH | Measuring Cosmic Birefringence in the Presence of Galactic Foregrounds and Improving Career Preparation Through Advanced Physics Labs | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA | Machine Learning Aided Quantum Chemistry Discovery in the Solution Phase | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Hamilton CollegeMatched to this organization because 30 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.Clinton, NY | Characterization of enzymes that build and degrade spore cortex peptidoglycan. | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of Tennessee KnoxvilleKnoxville, TN | Next Generation Beams: Exploring the potential of muon acceleration | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of MissouriColumbia, MO | A New Tool to Probe Condensed-Phase Chemistry: Rotational Spectroscopy of Buffer-Gas Cooled Molecules Desorbed from an Ice Surface | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Queen's University | Combining Quantum Chemistry Concepts and Machine Learning for Drug Discovery | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Hope CollegeHolland, MI | Chemical-Mechanical Control Over Nanoparticle-Hydrogel Sliding Interfaces | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Trinity UniversitySan Antonio, TX | Interface-Induced Changes to Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Environmentally-Relevant Polycyclic Aromatic Species | $120,000 | 2024 |
| California Polytechnic State University San Luis ObispoSan Luis Obispo, CA | Colloidal Stabilization of Covalent Organic Frameworks with Acid-Base Chemistry and STEM Educator Training | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA | Searching for New Physics with Galactic Neutrinos | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH | Characterizing and modulating interactions of disordered proteins that drive biomolecular condensate formation and cytotoxic aggregation | $120,000 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA | Allostery and Architecture: Building and Validating Functional Models of Multidomain Receptors | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT | Probing the role of membranes in bacterial methane oxidation with multiscale simulations | $120,000 | 2024 |
| California Institute of TechnologyPasadena, CA | Planetesimal interiors: Searching for evidence of core material | $120,000 | 2024 |
| University of San DiegoSan Diego, CA | Cloud-based investigations of quantum hydrodynamics in ultracold atomic gases | $120,000 | 2024 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYEVANSTON, IL | DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR THE FORMATION OF NEW COLLABORATIONS AT CONFERENCES | $115,820 | 2022 |
| Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL | Developing Mathematical Models for the Formation of New Collaborations at Conferences | $112,850 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGOLA JOLLA, CA | HARNESSING PRECISION GENOME EDITING TOOLS TO STUDY DNA REPAIR PROTEINS IN LIVE CELLS | $100,000 | 2021 |
| Harvey Mudd CollegeClaremont, CA | The Physical Principles Governing High-Rate and Large Deformation Elastic Recoil | $100,000 | 2023 |
| 2.00 |
| $0 |
| Ms Danielle Dana Johnson | Secretary & Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
| Mr G Scott Clemons | Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
| Dr Sean Decatur | Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
| Dr Eugene Flood | Board Member | 2.00 | $836 |
| Dr Patricia K Falcone | Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
| Dr Brent Iverson | Board Member | 2.00 | $511 |
| Dr Young-Kee Kim | Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
| Dr Amy Elaine Landis | Board Member | 2.00 | $625 |
| Ms Kristine Lipscomb | Board Member | 2.00 | $577 |
| Dr Catherine J Murphy | Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
| Dr Lyman A Page | Board Member | 2.00 | $0 |
Nearest by size, location and giving pattern in the database. Geography weighs heavily. Treat it as a starting list, not a ranking of fit.
Form 990-PF · FY2023 · period ending Dec 31, 2023IRS bulk XML
Filing id 202403189349103635
Form 990-PF · FY2022 · period ending Dec 31, 2022
Filing id 202313139349102526
Form 990-PF · FY2021 · period ending Dec 31, 2021
Filing id 202242939349100009
Form 990-PF · FY2020 · period ending Dec 31, 2020
Filing id 202133149349102638
IRS filings are the source for every fact on this page. Nothing a model writes is ever a source; it can only point at a row here.