Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,097,272 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($809,338). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,338 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centershared fundersportfolio match
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
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.
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 74% · 2022 73% · 2023 76% · 2024 78% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC’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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $105k.
1 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC’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
BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 58% · 2019 43% · 2020 44% · 2021 31% · 2022 48% · 2023 74% — 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
20% of BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centershared fundersportfolio matchWA · backs 100 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 134 organizations that share your funders
- Prostate Cancer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inez Duff Bishop Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Usagainstalzheimer'sportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SBLI Legacy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Clinical Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
- The Broad Institute Incshared fundersMA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Blood Cancer United Incshared fundersDC · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$19.1M
- Department of Defense$19.0M
- National Science Foundation$305k
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 BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Va Boston Healthcare System · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
- BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,097,272 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($809,338). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,097,272 in grants to BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
- JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $809,338 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing