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Western Institute for Veterans Research

Western institute for biomedical research is a nonprofit corporation established in 1989 to promote research and related educational activities at the va salt lake city health care system, by providing a flexible funding mechanism for private and public grants to support va approved research projects.

$432k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$2.0MEducation$227kScience & Tech$173kHuman Services$74kRecreation & Sports$18k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $423,063, the rows itemized in this filing. The $432,211 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,148 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $356k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBANY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$97,043
MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$80,722
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION$74,446
GREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$53,469
COLIBRI GROUP QURE LLC$50,000
UTHSCSA$25,687
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$18,420
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$15,168
VETERAN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$8,108
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC: $116k → 7%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 13%Center for Veterans Research and Education: $35k → 11%GREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEAR: $319k → 14%ALBANY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $97k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%UNIV OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO: $28k → 16%COLIBRI GROUP QURE LLC: $50k → 15%QURE LLC: $450k → 14%MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $81k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $183k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $18k → 8%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $74k → 9%Harvard Pilgrim Hospital: $73k → 7%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $33k → 13%CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND ED: $25k → 11%Greater Los Angeles Research and Education Foundation: $120k → 14%Albany Research Institute: $43k → 14%University of Texas Health Science Center at San A: $28k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $55k → 14%Midwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation: $43k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 11%Idaho State University: $29k → 13%CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $25k → 11%GREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $53k → 14%UTHSCSA: $26k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $55k → 14%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 13%GREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $46k → 14%University of Texas Health Services of San Antonio: $21k → 16%Qure LLC: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE: $14k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
MO
NC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 11 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$2.3M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+76%

Still filing today

64%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $604k · revenue +9%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $263k · revenue +1%
  • HP
    HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $189k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • HM
    HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $74k · revenue 0%
  • CG
    COLIBRI GROUP QURE LLC
    one grant, 2025 · $50k
  • U
    UTHSCSA
    one grant, 2025 · $26k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
3
The Cardiovascular Medical Research and Education Fund Inc
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4
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
5
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
6
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
7
Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Hjf partners to advance military medicine for our nations warfighters. as a global nonprofit organization authorized by congress, hjf provides scientific, administrative and program management services to researchers and clinicians. hjf…

Health
8
Cincinnati Education and Research for Veterans Foundation

To improve the health of veterans and society by advancing the research and education mission of the cincinnati va medical center.

Health
9
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
10
Pacific Health Research & Education Institute

See schedule ophrei conducts health research and education that improves the health and well-being of veterans and all people in hawaii, central california, the pacific region, and throughout the u.s. driven by the values of excellence and…

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11
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Henry M Jackson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QURE LLC: $500,000 · OtherQURE LLCIDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $145,347 · OtherIDAHO STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $109,200 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANVETERANS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $76,608 · OtherVETERANS HEALTH FOUNDATIONHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $74,446 · OtherHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATIONTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA: $70,214 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SACOLIBRI GROUP QURE LLC: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $44,107 · OtherGREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $603,754 · HealthGREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDU…HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC: $188,805 · HealthHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INCMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $123,364 · HealthMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDAT…CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $86,170 · HealthCENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $262,925 · EducationDUKE UNIVERS…New York University: $15,168 · EducationNew York Uni…ALBANY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $139,686 · Science & Tech
Other$1,069,922Health$1,002,093Education$278,093Science & Tech$139,686

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $603,754 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $262,925 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC: $188,805 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $139,686 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $123,364 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $86,170 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVETERANS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $76,608 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $74,446 over 1y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Western Institute for Veterans Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Institute for Veterans Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc: 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Western Institute for Veterans Research?

Find your warmest path to Western Institute for Veterans Research through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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