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Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,691,647 to it, the largest being J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 ($60,205,142). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $118M
- Net assets
- $526M
What Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation does
Mission
OMRF is dedicated to developing a better understanding of more effective treatments for human disease.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arthritis and Clinical Immunology/Clinical Operations - OMRF continued to build on its national leadership in autoimmune disease research and care. In 2025, physicians in the foundation's clinics treated more than 3,000 patients living with conditions such as lupus, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. At the same time, OMRF expanded its portfolio of clinical trials, serving as a leading site for some of the first U.S. studies designed to prevent autoimmune diseases before symptoms appear. These trials focus on people at high risk of developing lupus or rheumatoid arthritis and aim to better understand how these illnesses begin - and how they might be delayed or stopped.
$47,419,059 spent$23,793,202 earned by the program40% of program spendingAging and Metabolism Research Program - OMRF's Aging & Metabolism Research Program continued to advance research into how aging affects the body and how those changes might be slowed. The program welcomed a new investigator, Dr. David Hughes, whose work explores how cells recycle proteins to maintain healthy tissues. Program scientists also earned national recognition, with Dr. Sue Bodine named president-elect of the American Physiological Society and Dr. Benjamin Miller completing his term as president of the American Aging Association. Researchers secured new federal grants and training awards, performed public outreach on healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease, and launched a first-of-its-kind clinical trial examining why some older adults respond better to certain forms of exercise than others.
$11,214,388 spent$13,077,342 earned by the program10% of program spendingCardiovascular Biology Research Program - Scientists in OMRF's Cardiovascular Biology Research Program made discoveries that could reshape understanding of diseases affecting blood vessels and circulation. Dr. Courtney Griffin revealed new ways blood vessels can be damaged during conditions such as Tylenol overdose and diabetes-related eye disease, and she identified a potential strategy to protect delicate eye capillaries and preserve vision in early stages of disease. Meanwhile, Dr. Sathish Srinivasan discovered that malfunction of the body's lymphatic vessels may contribute to Crohn's disease, pointing to a possible new avenue for treatment.
$9,664,447 spent$10,827,654 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program services include departments such as Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology, Genes and Human Disease, Center for Biomedical Data Sciences and other scientific and research support services.
$48,805,337 spent$38,720,279 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,103,231.
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 2020 to 2021, from $416M to $500M (+20%).
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 49% · 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% · 2024 39% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’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. 0 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
Andrew Weyrich PhD
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $21M.
12 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $9.7M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Emory University). These are real filings, and they are not money Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 21% · 2019 68% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 54% · 2023 50% — 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
48% of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
90% of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $352.8M on record — $348.2M federal, $4.5M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$342.5M
- National Science Foundation$3.2M
- Department of Defense$1.7M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$814k
- Department of Agriculture$57k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$13k
- R&D-Physical, Eng., Life Sci$2.0M
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$878k
- Other Prof, Sc. & Tech.Svc$854k
- Assistance Payments$400k
- OCAST Program Award Payments$283k
- Testing Laboratories$24k
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 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Culbertson Plaza LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation?
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,691,647 to it, the largest being J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 ($60,205,142). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $117,691,647 in grants to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation?
- J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 is the largest funder on record, with $60,205,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 115 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