Maryland · Nonprofit
THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,714 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($55,214). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $93M
What The Stanley Medical Research Institute does
Mission
To find the cause(s) of and better pharmacological treatments for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Infectious and neurovirology: smri is the major research institution in the world focusing on infectious agents as a possible cause of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The center for this research is the stanley laboratory of developmental neurovirology at johns hopkins university in baltimore. This laboratory works closely with smri-funded researchers at several other institutions. The main targets of this research are toxoplasma gondii, the herpes family of viruses, and endogenous retroviruses.
$3,214,780 spentof which $3,103,505 as grants51% of program spendingTreatment trials: during 2024, smri supported 20 trials for the treatment of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Most of these were drugs that are available to treat other conditions and for which there was reason to believe they might also be effective for psychiatric disorders. In almost all cases, pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to support such trials because the drug is already generic or cannot be patented. Smri is supporting more such treatment trials than any other organization in the world.
$1,522,170 spentof which $1,461,946 as grants24% of program spendingNeuropathology: brain tissue repository and neuropathology laboratory: stores and processes postmortem brain tissue, liver, spleen, serum and csf from people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression and from normal control subjects. Samples are made available to scientists around the world. All research data collected on the specimens is returned to the smri publically available web-based interactive neuropathology database for further analysis.
$1,476,568 spent23% of program spendingTreatment advocacy center
$99,005 spentof which $99,005 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,312,523.
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 $99M to $78M (−21%).
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 THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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. 8 of the last 8 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
Maree J Webster See Sched L
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $4k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 STANLEY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
76% 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 STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 86% · 2020 97% · 2021 86% · 2022 86% · 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
76% of THE STANLEY 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. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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
THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves 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 THE STANLEY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Treatment Advocacy Center · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,714 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($55,214). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $72,714 in grants to THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $55,214 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 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