Missouri · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS
FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,564 to it, the largest being CENTENE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Foundation for Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics does
Mission
Page 2 part iii primary exempt purpose: foster education and research in bioethics and related fields through publishing and other activities. Page 2 line 28: program service accomplishments the foundation fosters education and research in bioethics and related fields through publishing and other activities. The journal narrative inquiry in bioethics is published on behalf of the foundation and is available in print and electronically to over 1,200 institutional subscribers. In 2024, the journal had nearly 23,000 downloads. The webpage that hosts the open access edition was visited more than 2,400 times. Additionally, an unknown number of people benefit from our educational materials.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $128k to $168k (+31%).
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.
100% of FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mark Fischer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS’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
FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS?
- FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,564 to it, the largest being CENTENE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $99,564 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS?
- CENTENE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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