Arkansas · Nonprofit
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,259 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($382,596). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $814k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Biomedical Research Foundation does
Mission
Advance the research and education mission of the department of veterans affairs by supporting research related activities at the john l. Mcclellan memorial veterans hospital in little rock, arkansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dod: the principal investigators (pis) of this application propose to test the hypothesis that the severity of individual exposure to burn pits will be positively correlated with levels of persistent organic pollutants in blood and metals in urine and the number of epigenetic alterations in dna methylation and that levels of toxic chemicals and alterations in the methylation of specific genes will be positively correlated with chronic problems involving the cardiovascular, respiratory, neuropsychiatric, and other organ systems. The project's specific aims are to (1) describe and quantify relationships of intensity and duration of exposure with persistent organic chemicals/metals in the registry participants and ascertain their relationships with health outcomes linked to burn pit exposure and (2) discover and validate dna methylation marks that best distinguish between individuals exposed to burn pits and those not exposed and then describe and quantify the relationships between dna methylation, intensity and duration of exposure, and health outcomes
$364,952 spent33% of program spendingPhaser: medical training and education program to support the training and educational components of the va pharmacogenomics action for cancer survivorship (phaser) program that will offer pharmacogenomic testing to veteran cancer survivors receiving medical care through the va.
$110,932 spent10% of program spendingDefine gps: collaborator desires va to participate in collecting data to assess the performance of collaborator's proprietary ifr co-registration solution using commercially available philips pressure guidewires and the philips syncvision co-registration system in accordance with define gps protocol referenced above
$56,956 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$578,106 spent$313,246 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,110,946.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+48%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 0% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Alan Wolfman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $136k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 86% · 2021 94% · 2022 71% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Defense$893k
- Department of Health and Human Services$343k
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 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Central Arkansas Vet Healthcare System · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,259 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($382,596). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $814,259 in grants to BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $382,596 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 5 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