Texas · Nonprofit
Baylor Research Institute
Baylor Research Institute (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,640,331 to it, the largest being Baylor University Medical Center ($126,277,754). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $255M
- Net assets
- $173M
What Baylor Research Institute does
Mission
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See Schedule OEstablished in 1984, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute (BSWRI) is responsible for the oversight and management of all translational, observational, and clinical research conducted throughout the Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) system.BSWRI expanded its operations in 2013 as part of the merger between Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System and Temple-based Scott & White Healthcare, which created BSWH the largest nonprofit health system in Texas. Today, BSWH has over 1,300 patient access points including 53 hospitals, 600+ specialty care clinics, 250+ outpatient clinics, 150+ primary care clinics, 29 pharmacies, 30+ ambulatory surgery centers, 60+ urgent care clinics, and over 7,300 active physicians. The system also includes a state certified health maintenance organization, the Scott and White Health Plan and the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance accountable care organization both covering approximately 1,200,000 lives.BSWRI brings innovation to the forefront of medicine. From contributing to discoveries that help create new treatment options, to studying population health and other trends that improve quality of care, we pursue research focused on…
$75,562,410 spent$34,302,370 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,562,410.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $140M to $167M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 16% · 2020 13% · 2021 18% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Baylor Research Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Javed Butler MD
Trustee/President/CEO
Board chair
Michael J Mack MD
Trustee/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $35M → $18M.
3 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Baylor Research Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Baylor Research Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Baylor Research Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 63% · 2019 45% · 2020 50% · 2021 45% · 2022 44% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Baylor Research Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of Baylor Research Institute's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Baylor Research Institute runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Baylor Research Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59.3M on record — $59.3M federal, $338 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$50.7M
- Department of Defense$7.2M
- Department of Homeland Security$1.4M
- Other Scientific-Tech.Cons.Svc$338
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Baylor Research Institute
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 112 related entities
- All Saints Health Foundation · exempt
- Baylor All Saints Medical Center · exempt
- Baylor Health Care System · exempt
- Baylor Health Care System Employee Benefit Trust · exempt
- Baylor Health Care System Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Baylor Research Institute?
- Baylor Research Institute (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,640,331 to it, the largest being Baylor University Medical Center ($126,277,754). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Baylor Research Institute have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $254,640,331 in grants to Baylor Research Institute, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Baylor Research Institute?
- Baylor University Medical Center is the largest funder on record, with $126,277,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Baylor Research Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing