Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,500 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($62,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $434k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Southern Star Medical Research Institute does
Mission
Organization's mission is to engage in the continuous active conduct of medical research in conjunction with one or more hospitals.the organization's goal is to alleviate human suffering through medical research for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and impairments of man so that people may experience the presence of god's love within them through better health and intentional service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization has research affiliation agreements with baylor college of medicine, texas children's hospital, and baylor scott and white and is directly engaged in the continuous active conduct of medical research in conjunction with these medical institutions.
$2,394,453 spentof which $19,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,394,453.
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 2018 to 2019, from $197k to $11M (+5507%).
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.
0% of SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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.
Board chair
C Len Benckenstein
Trustee/chairman & pres
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Good News Foundation of Texas · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,500 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($62,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $62,500 in grants to SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN STAR MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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