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THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION

THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,620 to it, the largest being MERCY DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.3M
Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
$17k
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($8.2M)2018 Revenue 121 ($6.7M) Expenses 112 ($5.1M) Net assets 117 ($9.6M)2019 Revenue 129 ($7.1M) Expenses 134 ($6.1M) Net assets 130 ($11M)2020 Revenue 97 ($5.3M) Expenses 105 ($4.8M) Net assets 136 ($11M)2021 Revenue 105 ($5.8M) Expenses 106 ($4.8M) Net assets 148 ($12M)2022 Revenue 118 ($6.5M) Expenses 116 ($5.3M) Net assets 163 ($13M)2023 Revenue 125 ($6.9M) Expenses 125 ($5.7M) Net assets 178 ($14M)2024 Revenue 132 ($7.3M) Expenses 131 ($6.0M) Net assets 189 ($15M)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (131)Net assets (189)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$950k
17
$1.5M
18
$1.0M
19
$536k
20
$950k
21
$1.2M
22
$1.2M
23
$1.3M
24
34
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of THE UAB 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 UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

60%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 74% · 2019 76% · 2020 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

97% of THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

NC
AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
Alabama out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 188 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
47%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • See Part VII · exempt
  • See Part VII · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UAB 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 UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,620 to it, the largest being MERCY DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $16,620 in grants to THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
MERCY DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing