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FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC

FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,497,682 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION ($3,906,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.7M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$6.5M
Net assets
$30M
24/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Inc does

Mission

The foundation's mission is to fund research and develop researchers to optimize movement and health of society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scientific research/grants: the foundation is dedicated to providing grant and scholarship support to physical therapist investigators to promote training and grant funding for scientifically based and clinically relevant research related to the effectiveness of physical therapy practice. The foundation continues to support researchers around the country in areas such as: orthopaedics, geriatrics, pediatrics, neurology, chronic conditions, and cardiology.

    $1,011,210 spentof which $835,464 as grants
    51% of program spending
  2. Educational: in 2025, the foundation awarded $313,595 in scholarships and fellowship to support physical therapists or physical therapist assistants in their first year of a post-professional doctoral degree program (pods I) and post-candidacy phase of post-professional doctoral studies (pods ii) and fellowship.

    $513,203 spentof which $338,595 as grants
    26% of program spending
  3. Awareness: the foundation strives to raise awareness of funding opportunities on a wide range of physical therapy research areas and its vital role for practicing physical therapists which results in advancing healthcare and optimizing movement of patients and individuals across all age and disease spectrums.

    $461,712 spent
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,986,125.

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 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2019 Revenue 51 ($2.9M) Expenses 102 ($2.4M) Net assets 108 ($22M)2020 Revenue 61 ($3.4M) Expenses 86 ($2.0M) Net assets 118 ($24M)2021 Revenue 88 ($5.0M) Expenses 84 ($2.0M) Net assets 136 ($27M)2022 Revenue 48 ($2.7M) Expenses 95 ($2.2M) Net assets 112 ($22M)2023 Revenue 42 ($2.4M) Expenses 91 ($2.1M) Net assets 125 ($25M)2024 Revenue 56 ($3.2M) Expenses 99 ($2.3M) Net assets 136 ($27M)2025 Revenue 82 ($4.7M) Expenses 109 ($2.6M) Net assets 150 ($30M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (109)Net assets (150)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 2021 to 2022, from $28M to $24M (−16%).

$22M
$23M
$25M
$28M
$24M
$27M
$29M
$31M
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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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

37% of FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.3M
’17
$476k
’19
$1.4M
’20
$3.0M
’21
$474k
’22
$252k
’23
$852k
’24
$2.1M
’25
7.5
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.

Chief executive

Barbara Malm

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Paul Rockar

President/chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined··+2+1+4+0+3+0
No longer listed··214031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $999k → $719k.

Funder
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Apta New York Incunclassified
$25k
Emory Universityunclassified
$5k
funders
17
19
12
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12
12
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8

5 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC.

60%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 62% · 2019 50% · 2020 80% · 2021 60% · 2022 26% · 2023 70% — 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.

How long its funders stay

42% of FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

65% of FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

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

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 7%Fundraising 16%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

50%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Physical Therapy Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC?
FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,497,682 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION ($3,906,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $6,497,682 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC?
AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,906,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing