California · Nonprofit
The Ketamine Research Foundation
The Ketamine Research Foundation (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,618 to it, the largest being The Mental Insight Foundation ($640,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $674k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $559k
What The Ketamine Research Foundation does
Mission
The specific purpose of the corporation shall include, without limitation: to evolve and provide research, training, and education in the development of Ketamine's use for psychiatric and psychotheraputic science and clinical practice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ketamine is the only legally available medicine with psychedelic therapeutic methodologies and practices that will serve as a model and development ground as other psychoactive medicines become available for clinical practice. This makes for streamlined and creative research, with appropriate safeguards with FDA and IRB approvals as appropriate.KRF's 2024 achievements were as follows: Completed Phantom Limb Protocol and submitted it to FDAin Review. IRB gave conditional approval based on FDA review Our Acute Trauma PTSD protocol was sent, taught and utilized in the Ukraine, Israel, North Carolina's disaster and elsewhere. KRF took leadership in dealing with trauma treatment worldwide and presented its protocol and is providing ongoing training KRF's protocol for Women's Wellbeing with the treatment of luteal face PMS and PMDD was submitted to FDA for an INDin review Setting Standards for Safe and Effective Ketamine Use-- KRF as the standard bearer for the use of ketamine clinicallyAnd for its safe use personally. KRF published major articles on KAP in academic journals, participated in numerous podcasts and programs, and had several journalistic pieces published.
$252,349 spentof which $5,000 as grants$14,409 earned by the program42% of program spendingKRF's Ketamine Training Center continued its practitioner training programs with over 1000 persons trained as of 2024. Our 2nd Annual Dharma K program was held as well as our Advanced Sharing program. WE remain as the principle and most complete training organization for KAP and Ketamine work. The BIPOC program continues to support diversity with scholarship assistance to trainees.KRF's Ketamine Psychotherapy Associates membership program now has over 100 members and provides ongoing support for practitioners and KAP practices. Our Access to Care program provide funds for our members to support those who cannot afford care.
$349,701 spentof which $750 as grants$334,913 earned by the program58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $602,050.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $403k to $652k (+62%).
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: 2019 9% · 2020 66% · 2021 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of The Ketamine Research Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Philip E Wolfson MD
CEO
Board chair
Monica Winsor
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $112k → $153k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 The Ketamine Research 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
The Ketamine Research Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 The Ketamine Research Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 76% · 2020 64% · 2021 62% · 2022 34% · 2023 65% — 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
75% of The Ketamine Research Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
73% of The Ketamine Research Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
The Ketamine Research Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Ketamine Research Foundation
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Ketamine Research Foundation: 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 The Ketamine Research Foundation?
- The Ketamine Research Foundation (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,618 to it, the largest being The Mental Insight Foundation ($640,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Ketamine Research Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,271,618 in grants to The Ketamine Research Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Ketamine Research Foundation?
- The Mental Insight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Ketamine Research Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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