Hawaii · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)
UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,954,438 to it, the largest being THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ($2,533,884). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $22M
What University Clinical Education & Research Associates (Ucera) does
Mission
Ucera is a non-profit organization established to further the missionsand visions of the john a. Burns school of medicine (jabsom) and other health sciences schools of the university of hawaii (uh). It contributes to their goal of improving the health care status of the citizens of hawaii and the pacific by supporting the education, research and clinical activities of the schools. It supports financial diversification of the school by developing revenue generating initiatives in collaboration with hospitals, government agencies and other entities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clinical and professional services - 1) provide health care to the general public, with special attention to the poor and other underserved populations of hawaii and the pacific region. 2) specialty clinics: multi-specialty faculty practice and staff located at various sites including: 677 ala moana blvd, honolulu, hi 96813; 1319 punahou street, suite 640, 801, 904, 990; physician's office buildings at queen's; pali momi medical center; 347 north kuakini street; at hawaii department of education school locations across the state of hawaii. Provide physicians on the university of hawaii faculty with a base of ob/gyn, geriatric, surgical, and psychiatric patients from which they can educate medical students and residents. 3) queen's medical centers and hawaii pacific health/kapiolani medical centers - provide faculty members to treat patients and to provide specialty clinical services to medical centers. 4) provide healthcare to the department of education students across the hawaiian islands through the hawaii keiki program.
$15,327,883 spent$19,661,477 earned by the program65% of program spendingMedical school and faculty support - in general, provides funding to build and sustain the infrastructure of the john a. Burns school of medicine and its departments and those of the other health sciences schools of the university of hawaii. Provide additional resources to recruit, retain, and develop qualified faculty at jabsom and the other uh health sciences schools.
$6,894,280 spent29% of program spendingEducational support - 1) in general, provide education and clinical training for the university of hawaii health sciences schools' students. 2) international training program (inl) - provide international medical students and residents with u.s. Training experiences at the university of hawaii john a. Burns school of medicine. 3) office of medical education (ome-me) - provide simulated patients for clinical skills training and examinations for school of medicine students and residents. Ucera supports the hawai'I journal of medicine & public health, which is a peer-reviewed medical journal which provides new scientific information in a scholarly format with a focus on the unique, multiculture and enviromental aspects of the hawaiian islands and pacific rim regions.
$1,172,551 spentof which $500,000 as grants5% of program spendingRural residency planning and development in establishing the uh family medicine residency program as a rural primary care site on kauai to create a primary care workforce pathway responsive to underserved multicultural/multilingual rural island communities.
$21,123 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,415,837.
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 2022 to 2023, from $41M to $34M (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Derek Wong
Interim CEO
Board chair
Samuel Shomaker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $632k → $716k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hawaii Cancer Consortium). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)’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
UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 42% · 2019 57% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
63% of UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)'s grant income comes from Hawaii 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.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)'s funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.5M
- Department of Defense$32k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- University Health Partners Akahai LLC · disregarded
- University of Hawaii John a Burns School of Medicine · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)?
- UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,954,438 to it, the largest being THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ($2,533,884). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,954,438 in grants to UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA)?
- THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $2,533,884 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY CLINICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (UCERA) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 7 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