California · Nonprofit
Southern California Institute for Research & Education
Southern California Institute for Research & Education (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $842,077 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($400,055). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $842k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Southern California Institute for Research & Education does
Mission
Scire is a non-profit ca public benefit corporation, incorporated in 1989, and was founded for the purpose of facilitating medical research and education by providing sponsors and investigators a comprehensive research resource management for the benefit of humanity and veterans in particular. Scire has the responsibility of administering funding from sponsors in accordance with the conditions and terms of the contribution, agreement, contract or grant and the dedication to provide investigators a supportive and productive research environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supported, completely or in part, ongoing research projects and programs in cancer, diabetes, arthlersclerosis, prosthetics and spinal cord injury. The biomedical and clinical research endeavors benefit the veteran population and society at large.
$1,802,938 spent$2,732,569 earned by the program100% of program spendingSupported education and training related activities for the benefit of veterans, their families, valbhcs staff and the community at large.
$564 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,803,502.
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 $7.4M to $6.5M (−11%).
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 40% · 2018 40% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 45% · 2022 53% · 2023 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Southern California Institute for Research & Education’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Bhushan Desai
CEO
Board chair
Timothy Morgan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $93k → $105k.
From the IRS filings of Southern California Institute for Research & Education’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
Southern California Institute for Research & Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Southern California Institute for Research & Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Southern California Institute for Research & Education draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Southern California Institute for Research & Education runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Southern California Institute for Research & Education receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.8M
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 Southern California Institute for Research & Education
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Va Long Beach Health Care System · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern California Institute for Research & Education: 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 Southern California Institute for Research & Education?
- Southern California Institute for Research & Education (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $842,077 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($400,055). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern California Institute for Research & Education have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $842,077 in grants to Southern California Institute for Research & Education, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern California Institute for Research & Education?
- Carnegie Mellon University is the largest funder on record, with $400,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern California Institute for Research & Education 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 7 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