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PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,506,994 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($499,725). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$13M
9/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Ponce Medical School Foundation Inc does

Mission

Ponce medical school foundation, inc. (''pmsf'') mission is to make a difference by solving health disparities through groundbreaking, innovative and relevant research that has a global impact in healthcare.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Pmsf is a leader in biomedical research in puerto rico and is comprised of highly accomplished researches with expertise in cancer, neuroscience, hiv and mental health. Pmsf provides modern research facilities that foster collaborative, integrative basic and clinical research. Pmsf houses one of the top clinical trial research sites in puerto rico, the only cancer tissue repository for puerto rican patients.

    $19,060,034 spent$18,757,208 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

  2. The institution has provided educational and research opportunities for physicians, psychologists, public health and biomedical students interested in pursuing research careers. Pmsf is a key player in ongoing research initiatives on chikunguya, dengue, and zika as it houses the most comprehensive database. Pmsf through inno diagnostics, a clia-certified diagnostic testing laboratory, has played a pivotal role in providing molecular testing and vaccines administration to the south of puerto rico during the covid-19 pandemic. Also, pmsf were awarded federal and private grants to work with covid-19 research initiatives. Pmsf is actively engaged in improving the community's well-being and participating in important social initiatives.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,060,034.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 90 ($12M) Expenses 106 ($13M) Net assets 62 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 102 ($13M) Expenses 103 ($12M) Net assets 85 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 126 ($16M) Expenses 131 ($16M) Net assets 102 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 200 ($26M) Expenses 167 ($20M) Net assets 290 ($8.7M)2022 Revenue 186 ($24M) Expenses 171 ($20M) Net assets 402 ($12M)2023 Revenue 153 ($20M) Expenses 158 ($19M) Net assets 427 ($13M)2024 Revenue 149 ($19M) Expenses 150 ($18M) Net assets 465 ($14M)2025 Revenue 146 ($19M) Expenses 168 ($20M) Net assets 423 ($13M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (168)Net assets (423)Peer revenue range

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 $7.0M to $12M (+66%).

$5.0M
$4.0M
$4.7M
$7.0M
$12M
$15M
$17M
$17M
$16M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
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2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 90% · 2019 87% · 2020 84% · 2022 76% · 2023 72% · 2024 76% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$844k
’17
−$1.1M
’18
$679k
’19
$524k
’20
$5.7M
’21
$3.4M
’22
$740k
’23
$1.2M
’24
−$1.3M
’25
2.5
months of
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.

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Listed121114181011171720
Joined·+2+6+5+0+2+8+6+5
No longer listed·33181262
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $163k → $133k.

Funder
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total
Direct Reliefunclassified
$500k
University of Pittsburghunclassified
$123k
funders
4
3
6
9
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6
7
2
4

From the IRS filings of PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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

PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

80% 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 PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.

33%
largest funder
54%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 51% · 2019 65% · 2020 60% · 2021 46% · 2022 54% · 2023 25% — 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

30% of PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 11 states in all.

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WI
PA
CA
VA
AZ
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DC
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TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Puerto Rico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116.3M on record.

Federal$116.3M
grants $115.6Mcontracts $662k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$114.5M
  • Department of Defense$1.8M

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 PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

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In Puerto Rico

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Nationally

Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation Inc82%Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust79%Phoebe Sumter Medical Center Inc78%Platform for Social Impact Inc78%Pierone Research Institute- a Wfhc Initiative Inc77%Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation77%Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc77%Pacific Neuroscience Institute Foundation76%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
57%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Tiber Health Public Benefit Corp · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: 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 PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,506,994 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($499,725). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,506,994 in grants to PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
DIRECT RELIEF is the largest funder on record, with $499,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 18 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