Virginia · Nonprofit
SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,500 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Spinal Research Foundation D/B/A National Spine Health Foundation does
Programs
Progrss is a contract compiling medical data and patient records resulting from spinal injuries.
$116,965 spentNshf launched a leadership program to bridge the unmet gap and critical need in patient education and advocacy by unifying and galvanizing collaborative partnerships with premiere physicians, professional societies, affiliate organizations and the medical industry.
$1,944 spentNshf's patient-focused and interactive website is a trusted source for information and resources for neck/back pain and spinal healthcare for public, media and government. The site features patient success stories to help inspire others with similar issues, as well as srf's research findings and current projects. Patients are able to log in and share their spinal champion stories.
$325,576 spentNshf launched a continuing medical education (cme) program to facilitate the education of health care professionals to increase their ability to execute spine health optimization in their practice. The cme program includes a webinar series for healthcare professionals, and the creation of the echo program. The extension for community healthcare outcomes (echo) program will be a collaborative model of medical education and care management that helps clinicians provide expert-level care.
$244,766 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.4M to $4.3M (+81%).
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
Thomas Schuler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION’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
SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION.
“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
82% of SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION'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. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,500 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $139,500 in grants to SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION D/B/A NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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