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BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE

BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $986,661 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($345,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$85k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$987k
Net assets
$49k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Benjamin Rush Institute does

Mission

Promote healthcare solutions that protect the doctor-patient relationship as the primary means of delivering quality medical care and rely on free enterprise-not bureaucratic dictates-to encourage life-saving innovation and reduce costs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Chapter development: bri fosters student leaders as ambassadors, advocates and educators about perserving the patient-doctor relationship, fundamentally to provide optimum results for both patients and doctors. Bri chapters hold many events annually ranging in attendence from 12 to 500 exposing medical students to free market healthcare policy solutions.

    $83,515 spent
    53% of program spending
  2. Outreach: this program is to increase awareness of bri and to build collaborative relationships with organizations which share our dedication to the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship and support of free enterprise. Participation includes speaking engagements, conference attendance, networking, exhibition tables, and provision of promotional materials.

    $75,551 spent
    47% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,066.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($324k) Expenses 100 ($327k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 144 ($465k) Expenses 102 ($335k) Net assets 397 ($234k)2019 Revenue 61 ($196k) Expenses 92 ($302k) Net assets 217 ($127k)2020 Revenue 81 ($261k) Expenses 72 ($236k) Net assets 259 ($152k)2021 Revenue 84 ($271k) Expenses 62 ($201k) Net assets 378 ($222k)2022 Revenue 79 ($257k) Expenses 70 ($228k) Net assets 427 ($251k)2023 Revenue 51 ($165k) Expenses 93 ($305k) Net assets 189 ($111k)2024 Revenue 38 ($123k) Expenses 59 ($192k) Net assets 70 ($41k)2025 Revenue 26 ($85k) Expenses 24 ($78k) Net assets 83 ($49k)
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Revenue (26)Expenses (24)Net assets (83)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $61k to $234k (+283%).

$61k
$234k
$138k
$155k
$224k
$257k
$114k
$48k
$55k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$130k
’18
−$106k
’19
$25k
’20
$70k
’21
$29k
’22
−$140k
’23
−$69k
’24
$7k
’25
8.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Sally Pipes

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed677768888
Joined·+4+0+0+0+3+0+0+2
No longer listed·30011002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $148k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

35%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 66% · 2020 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 47% — 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

55% of BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.

WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CO
VA
KS
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve8.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like BENJAMIN RUSH 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE?
BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $986,661 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($345,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $986,661 in grants to BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE?
SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $345,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 15 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