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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,416,292 to it, the largest being Yale University ($2,266,259). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc does
Mission
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The northern california institute for research and education, inc. ("ncire") is a research institute affiliated with the u.s. Department of veterans affairs ("va") in san francisco, california and the university of california at san francisco. Ncire works with sponsors and the u.s. Department of veterans affairs in administering contributions for conducting research to find new and improved ways to combat human disease and to help people with disabilities. The research administered by ncire is va-approved research, conducted at va facilities. Ncire was established under title 38, subchapter iv, subsections 7361-7366 and is subject to department of veterans affairs handbook 1200 17. Under title 38, subsection 7363, ncire's board of directors currently includes members who serve by virtue of their statutory positions within the san francisco veterans affairs health care system. They are the medical center director, chief of staff, and the associate chief of staff for research, in addition to several principal investigators of the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
$58,670,114 spent$6,585,113 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,670,114.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $23M (+39%).
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 92% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 85% · 2021 83% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% · 2024 88% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Rebecca Rosales
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Michael Shlipak Md Mph
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $666k → $2.4M.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
98% 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 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 27% · 2021 33% · 2022 23% · 2023 15% — 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
43% of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M 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
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC has grown faster than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $392.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$355.6M
- Department of Defense$37.3M
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 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC?
- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,416,292 to it, the largest being Yale University ($2,266,259). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $15,416,292 in grants to NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC?
- Yale University is the largest funder on record, with $2,266,259 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC 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.
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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 42 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