Virginia · Nonprofit
RESEARCHAMERICA
RESEARCHAMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,322,559 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,718,148). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Researchamerica does
Mission
2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. From pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we kept science visible. Our work is possible because of our 300+ member organizations and the committed individuals who are part of these organizations. Our vision to achieve the fastest possible pace of medical and public health progress is advanced by our steadfast commitment to our mission of advocacy for the research continuum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocating for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all:the research!america alliance is a driving force in advocating with one voice to represent the r&d ecosystem. We advocate for increased funding for our nation's medical, health and scientific r&d focused federal agencies. We work with our members and individual advocates to encourage congress and the administration to support fast-paced medical progress and advances in public health. Our pace in 2025 was relentless: 54 congressional meetings, 36 alliance discussions, 31 new policy and advocacy resources, 11 letters to the administration, and much more.
$2,650,426 spent34% of program spendingAmericans for medical research advocacy campaign:in light of unprecedented challenges to federally-funded medical research in 2025, research!america, with support from over 20 scientific societies and many foundations, led a public education and awareness advertising campaign: americans for medical research. Launched in september, the campaign was active in washington, d.c. And in four states: kansas, north carolina, pennsylvania and utah. The campaign generated over 6 million views of ads and 340,000 visits to the website. The science society partners helped to find dozens of stories from patients, researchers and clinicians impacted by cuts to nih. Some made their way into op-eds, others drew attention on the research!america website.
$2,063,700 spent26% of program spendingBolstering our nation's r&d capacity:the science and technology action committee (stac) continued to bring together nonprofit, academic, foundation, and corporate leaders for thought leadership to dramatically strengthen u.s. Science and technology. In february 2025, stac released the vision for american science and technology to unite the community in making the case for a clear vision and actionable policy recommendations for a supercharged american scientific enterprise. Stac also worked closely with other stakeholders to push back against drastic proposed cuts in fy26 funding for federal science programs.
$1,348,742 spent17% of program spendingGlobal health r&d initiative:research!america is advancing advocacy to protect and strengthen u.s. Government investment in global health research and development (gh r&d) through non-official development assistance (non-oda) funding. The initiative deliverables focus on funding for infectious disease r&d. Protecting topline funding for nih, making the case for the significance of nih's role in infectious disease research at the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases (niaid), and working to prevent the elimination of the fogarty international center (fic) are key objectives of the initiative.
$670,600 spent9% of program spendingAdvocacy programs:we annually host several partner programs each year, highlighting our convening power and ability to identify and focus attention on timely research and development policy topics. In 2025, the national health research forum provided participants with the opportunity to engage in dialogue that provided actionable insights and fostered collaborative discussions into critical health and scientific challenges facing the country.in 2025, we were pleased to increase our focus on in-person congressional briefings. One of the programs included an expert panel assembled to discuss the science behind genetically targeted technology and the extraordinary capability it holds to address urgent unmet medical needs. Our 2025 programming featured expert panelists, remarks from congressional champions, as well as new infographic resources for congressional staff and advocates. We look forward to a continued educational presence on the hill in 2026.
$419,966 spent5% of program spendingScience outreach and civic engagement:early career scientists are increasingly motivated to engage with their local communities. Our civic engagement microgrant program, now in its 8th year, has been part of this important trend thanks to foundation support. In 2025, we provided 24 microgrants to early career stemm groups across the country. In november, we launched the 2025-2026 cycle and received a record-setting 132 applications, a 22% increase over last year. We also completed a successful first year of a new civic science opportunity - the public engagement content awards, focused on the creation of open-access curricula in skills needed for effective public engagement. We provided 11 awards of up to $5,000 each and released the innovative training content on research!america's website.
$407,494 spentof which $49,033 as grants5% of program spendingOther programs
$231,083 spent3% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,792,011.
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 $4.9M to $12M (+143%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Mary Woolley
President & chief executive officer
Board chair
Sudip Parikh Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $348k → $2.5M.
8 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $135k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Albert & Mary Lasker Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RESEARCHAMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of RESEARCHAMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
RESEARCHAMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
26% 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 RESEARCHAMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 28% · 2019 21% · 2020 28% · 2021 51% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of RESEARCHAMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
RESEARCHAMERICA draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 RESEARCHAMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32k on record.
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$32k
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 RESEARCHAMERICA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESEARCHAMERICA: 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 RESEARCHAMERICA?
- RESEARCHAMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,322,559 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,718,148). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESEARCHAMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $15,322,559 in grants to RESEARCHAMERICA, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESEARCHAMERICA?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,718,148 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESEARCHAMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 58 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