Virginia · Nonprofit
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $873,616 to it, the largest being ROBINWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $874k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Brain Injury Association of America Inc does
Mission
(see schedule o)to advance brain injury awareness, research, treatment, and education and to improve the quality of life for all individuals impacted by brain injury. Through advocacy, biaa's goal is to bring help, hope, and healing to millions of individuals living with brain injury, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Biaa leads the nation in raising awareness and understanding about brain injury through its award-winning website, www.biausa.org, robust social media, and sought-after public speakers. The publications offered by biaa are available in print and digital format and include fact sheets, quarterly news magazines, and informational brochures. During 2025, biaa's #morethanmybraininjury awareness campaign was held during brain injury awareness month. The campaign helped the public understand the many causes of brain injury while empowering brain injury individuals and families to tell their story to dispel common myths and misconceptions.
$1,149,315 spent$329,533 earned by the program29% of program spendingAffiliate services - biaa provides leadership, technical assistance, operational best practices, and individualized fundraising training and consultation to a nationwide network of chartered state affiliates, divisions, local chapters, and support groups across the country to meet the needs of all those whose lives are affected by brain injury.
$1,093,834 spent$145,065 earned by the program28% of program spendingEducation, training, and research - biaa educates brain injury survivors, caregivers and professionals every year through several programs. These include free and low-cost webinars, in-person conferences, and specialized resources and materials. Biaa's academy of certified brain injury specialists (acbis) provides programs that allow individuals an opportunity to learn important information about brain injury and earn a nationally recognized credential. Acbis programs provide education, training, certification, and ongoing resources for specialists in the brain injury community. Current acbis programs include certified brain injury specialist (cbis), certified brain injury specialist trainer (cbist) and provisional certified brain injury specialist (pcbis) certification programs, as well as the brain injury fundamentals certificate program. Biaa's acbis programs continue to grow the certification program offerings to meet the needs of the brain injury rehabilitation community. Biaa accelerates research and the discovery of cures by awarding grants to dissertation candidates, young investigators, and brain injury scholars across the country. Biaa's staff and leaders are key…
$884,231 spentof which $84,346 as grants$1,018,163 earned by the program23% of program spendingGovernment relations and advocacy - biaa and its network of advocates educate federal policymakers throughout the year by informing them about life-saving research, access to healthcare, civil rights, and financial security for people with brain injuries. During 2025, biaa assisted the congressional brain injury task force in conducting the annual brain injury awareness day on capitol hill, which was held in march; it consisted of in-person meetings for selected constituents that biaa arranged for with various law makers. Biaa keeps its constituents abreast of relevant public policy through its free weekly e-newsletter, policy corner.
$509,076 spent13% of program spendingIndividual and family services - biaa operates the toll-free national brain injury information center (nbiic), which connects callers to a trained specialist who is compassionate and knowledgeable about local resources. Nbiic offers information in both english and spanish. Biaa responds to inquiries for personalized assistance. The people biaa helps range from families struggling with a child in a coma to caregivers wondering how to support a loved one who was injured many years ago.
$288,879 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,925,335.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.0M to $6.6M (+63%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 8% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 12% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
David Harrington Mba Otrl Cbist
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $7k → $51k.
9 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 56% · 2019 33% · 2020 26% · 2021 87% · 2022 42% · 2023 32% — 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
44% of BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- DE$11k
- VT$746
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 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC?
- BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $873,616 to it, the largest being ROBINWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $873,616 in grants to BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC?
- ROBINWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC 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.
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 43 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