Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,212,796 to it, the largest being THE PERSHING SQUARE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $880k
What Lankenau Institute for Medical Research does
Mission
Our mission is to advance human health and well being through research, to improve the detection & treatment of disease, to rapidly transfer new technology to the clinic, and to train the next generation of scientists & physicians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Basic Research LIMR Basic Research focuses on the advancement of knowledge for various diseases and conditions. In conjunction with LIMR's core research programs in cancer and cardiovascular disease, LIMR investigators also study arthritis, diabetes, lupus, infectious disease, neurological disorders, gastrointestinal disease and regenerative medicine, all with the goal of improving health and well-being.
$9,900,216 spent$351,136 earned by the program66% of program spendingClinical Research LIMR Clinical Research is conducted primarily in oncology and cardiology but also includes other diseases and disorders. This means patients and participants have access to state-of-the-art clinical trials and new treatments before they become available to the general public. This allows patients to be more active in their health care.
$4,717,387 spent$3,604,952 earned by the program31% of program spendingNew Technology / Innovations / Other LIMR has initiated a unique hybrid mix of knowledge-based academic culture with invention-based entrepreneurial culture. It is called an ACAPRENEURIAL strategy. To date, more than 15 biomedical start-up companies have incubated in LIMR side-by-side with our research laboratories.
$415,343 spent3% 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: $15,032,946.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.0M to $22M (+179%).
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 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 29% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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.
Board chair
Peter H Havens
Chairman & trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $661k → $566k.
2 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $31M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lankenau Medical Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH raised.
From the IRS filings of LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH’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
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 36% · 2019 23% · 2020 69% · 2021 34% · 2022 44% · 2023 44% — 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
20% of LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$19.4M
- Department of Defense$1.6M
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 LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Main Line Health System · exempt
- Main Line Health Inc · exempt
- Main Line Hospitals Inc · exempt
- Main Line Health Homecare and Hospice · exempt
- Riddle Memorial Hospital · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH?
- LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,212,796 to it, the largest being THE PERSHING SQUARE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,212,796 in grants to LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH?
- THE PERSHING SQUARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 25 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