Maryland · Nonprofit
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE (Maryland) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,930,286 to it, the largest being University of Miami ($36,558,692). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $616M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $77M
- Net assets
- $177M
What Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine does
Mission
Hjf partners to advance military medicine for our nations warfighters. As a global nonprofit organization authorized by congress, hjf provides scientific, administrative and program management services to researchers and clinicians. Hjf serves as a trusted link between medical community, federal and industry partners, and millions of american service families, veterans, and civilians who benefit from its important work.hjf helps ensure that military medical innovations become products as quickly and safely as possible, to strengthen the health and well-being of our service members during and after their service. Hjf also supports the adoption of advances in military medicine into the civilian sphere to benefit global public health. Hjf is a diligent steward of funds from government awards, industry partnerships, and private donations all focused on the goal of advancing military medicine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research administration expenses: as a trusted partner with military medical researchers, important hjf accomplishments include attracting, managing, and retaining highly qualified scientific staff to support the priorities of u.s. Military medicine. Whether it is the senior scientist to lead major initiatives and work collaboratively with u.s. Government scientists, or lab techs to perform ongoing research functions, hjf hires the best and brightest talent to accelerate innovations necessary to advance military medicine. In fy2025, hjf played an even larger role in convening and connecting the military, industry, academia, and government by hosting leadership fora and other key dod medicine meetings, with governmental and non-governmental thought leaders, to collaboratively identify challenges and posit military medicine solutions. Additionally, in fy2025 hjf began construction of hjf innovation labs @ montgomerycountymd (hil), as part of the hjf innovation ecosystem initiative. Designed to serve as a unique regional biotech incubator, this new facility is designed to specifically address the challenges faced by growing startups and small companies. The primary focus of the hil…
$593,581,611 spent$90,081,031 earned by the program99% of program spendingEndowments: endowments delivered significant program services and support to the uniform services university for the health sciences (usu) particularly for the school of medicine and the clinical sciences department of surgery and department of dermatology. Programs include fellowship grants for graduate students studying medicine at usu. Hjf fellowship awards provide travel, educational, and training support.
$2,831,121 spent0% of program spendingEducation: education accounts provided education, training, and other approved iniatives related to advancing military medicine. Samples of projects funded through educational iniatives include the provisioning of textbooks travel to medical conferences or courses, support for exams, and manuscript publications expenses.
$1,090,159 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,502,891.
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.
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 $243M to $330M (+36%).
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 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 96% · 2022 84% · 2023 83% · 2024 84% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% 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
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
Joseph Caravalho Jr Md
President and CEO
Board chair
Raquel Bono Md Vadm Us Navy Ret
Director-chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 33 funders, grant income rose $3.7M → $11M.
13 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 58%; 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 HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 29% · 2019 65% · 2020 63% · 2021 55% · 2022 57% · 2023 45% — 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
52% of HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.9B on record.
- Department of Defense$4.7B
- Department of Health and Human Services$198.2M
- National Endowment for the Arts$32.5M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$9.1M
- Department of Homeland Security$3.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.3M
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 HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Camris International · disregarded
- Hjf Medical Research International Inc · exempt
- Hjf Medical Research International Ltd · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE?
- HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE (Maryland) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,930,286 to it, the largest being University of Miami ($36,558,692). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $76,930,286 in grants to HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE?
- University of Miami is the largest funder on record, with $36,558,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 86 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