Alabama · Nonprofit
THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION
THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 6 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $17M
What The Uab Research Foundation does
Mission
Foundation assists in the implementation of the patent policy at the university, including, but not limited to, assisting in the receipt and dissemination of materials, compounds and biological substances used in university research projects and evaluating the commercial potential of inventions created by university employees and students and the patentability and applicability of other protections with respect to such inventions. Necessary to this educational mission is the provision of outstanding medical care and services and the enhancement of new knowledge through clinical and basic biomedical research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation reviews invention disclosures submitted at uab and initiates domestic and foreign patent filings when appropriate. The foundation negotiates, manages, and monitors research, option, and licensing agreements with outside parties on behalf of uab.
$6,283,597 spent$8,359,283 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,283,597.
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.
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 $10M to $12M (+17%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Kathy L Nugent
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like THE UAB 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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 6 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 6 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.
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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 6 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