Missouri · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $991,829 to it, the largest being DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION ($245,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $992k
- Net assets
- $417k
What Institute for Research and Education in Family Medicine does
Mission
The organization's mission is to strengthen underserved communities, one patient at a time. This is accomplished through community clinics providing primary care, physicals, immunizations, acute care, chronic disease management, screenings, and preventative care. These clinics target underserved patients and provide care at little or no cost.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fy 2025, ifm served 6,377 unique patients and provided 12,205 patient appointments across 33 clinic sites in collaboration with 26 community partners. This represents significant program growth over the prior year. We added an additional partner clinic site in 2025: the guardian angel settlement association's community service center/pantry in st. Louis city. Our two newest community clinic sites, the community connections health clinic in bridgeton, mo and youth and family center health clinic in north st. Louis city, both increased clinic hours, programming, and subsequently increased the number of patients served over the prior year. These two sites, in addition to our hancock place community clinic, represent our community clinic model which serve not only the clients of the community partner where the clinic is located, but also serve individuals in need from the entire surrounding community. Our connections clinic's spanish speaking patient population grew significantly during 2025 and now makes up approximately 40% of the patients seen there.
$1,893,282 spent$797,155 earned by the program96% of program spendingAt these sites, we also have community health worker support and services that address patient social determinant of health needs which include food insecurity, housing, basic care items, support with utilities and transportation, mental health, and referrals to other supportive services in the community. Our patient satisfaction assessment data for 2025 revealed an average of 4.87 on a scale of 5 (with 5 being the highest). We also added a quality of life measure to this assessment in 2025. New initiatives for 2025/2026 included free hiv testing at all applicable clinic locations which started in 2025, expansion of behavioral health services from 2 sites to 3 in late 2025/early 2026 and the plan to open four new clinic sites in partnership with 1 existing and two new partners in late 2025/early 2026.
$78,570 spent$460,144 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,971,852.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $549k to $1.5M (+174%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Denise Buck Md
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $56k → $153k.
5 of 23 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 INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 73% · 2019 65% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% — 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
33% of INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
94% of INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k 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.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE
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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE?
- INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $991,829 to it, the largest being DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION ($245,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $991,829 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE?
- DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $245,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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