Mississippi · Nonprofit
THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION
THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,377,491 to it, the largest being ERGON FOUNDATION INC ($2,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What The Wilson Research Foundation does
Mission
In response to the needs of the physically disabled, The Wilson Research Foundation is dedicated to providing funding for research, education, technology and other needs in support of mississippi methodist rehabilitation center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Wilson Research Foundation is the primary support for methodist rehabilitation center's clinical research and education program "center for neuroscience and neurological recovery". The end-goal is to achieve better outcomes for patients, to determine what strategies work best, in whom and why, for recovery to each patient's potential. Over the years, the foundation has granted close to $14 million in grants to support clinical (human) research and provide therapists education/training in the use of innovative technologies. The research program has 4,500 feet of dedicated space at methodist, including a state-of-the-art neuro robotics lab, motion analysis lab and various therapy systems on the patient floors that serve dual roles as research and therapy tools. This work has resulted in over 330 publications in medical journals and presentations at many conferences. A major contribution of our research involves developing more effective ways to control muscle spasticity, a common, debilitating complication of serious stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury. The research program elevates care and outcomes at methodist rehabilitation center. Provided a grant to…
$1,091,883 spentof which $1,091,883 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,091,883.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $8.0M (+27%).
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.
90% of THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
H Chris Blount
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Marion Wofford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $329k → $378k.
5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $65k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mississippi Methodist Hospital Rehabilitation Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE WILSON 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 WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 57% · 2019 48% · 2020 61% · 2021 45% · 2022 44% · 2023 53% — 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
53% of THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
95% of THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k 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 WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE WILSON 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mississippi Methodist Hospital & Rehabilitation Center · exempt
- Select Physician Management Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WILSON 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 WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,377,491 to it, the largest being ERGON FOUNDATION INC ($2,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,377,491 in grants to THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- ERGON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing