California · Nonprofit
HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST
HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,299 to it, the largest being The San Diego Foundation ($418,735). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST is better cushioned than half of the 458 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 458 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocal
- J Roland Gilbert Mary R Gilbertportfolio match
- American Society for Bone and Mineral Researchportfolio match
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: 2017 81% · 2018 87% · 2019 12% · 2020 65% · 2021 68% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $17.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST’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
HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $200k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 85 organizations that share your funders · funds 157 organizations near you
- J Roland Gilbert Mary R Gilbertportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Society for Bone and Mineral Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groh George W Tr FBO Med Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Organization for Rare Disorders Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard Stravitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Genesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (Us) Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$35k
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 HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST: 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 HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST?
- HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,299 to it, the largest being The San Diego Foundation ($418,735). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $628,299 in grants to HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST?
- The San Diego Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $418,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMAN BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH INST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4funders 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