Cnyl Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461537763
IRS 990-PF coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2025
Location
Los Altos, CA, USA
Phone
6503089851
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Private Grantmaking Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,945
Expenses
$130,133

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Private Grantmaking Foundations

What it reported funding in 2025

The foundation reported 3 grants totaling $122,000. The stated grant purposes included support charitable purposes, including studying the role of regulatory t cells in immune regulation and exploring the feasibility of application for the treatment of allergic asthma and rheumatologic diseases, the pathogenesis of pyogenic liver abscess caused by k. pneumoniac, and research to improve multiplayer xr experience content., support charitable purposes, including providing students scholarships, financial aid, and awards., and support charitable purposes, including: bringing ai technologies to to patient care, developing tool to project health benefits of increasing hepatitis b screening and treatment, supporting research and raising public awareness of hepatitis b, using advanced mris to idenfity patients with delayed cerebral ischemia, and ai prediction of delayed cerebral ischemia..

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 95% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: 83
  • Cost Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency: 100
  • Compliance: 100
  • Endowment Health: 83

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: 83%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100

Compliance

  • Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Grants to individuals: Pass
    • Grants to organizations: Pass
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 24.88; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
  • Payout: 83% grant deployment rate
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 83th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.