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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,347,627 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($2,583,745). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What University of Cincinnati Research Institute does
Mission
To provide state-of-the-art research, educational facilities, and efficient business and legal opportunities for the advancement and development of intellectual property that contributes to the needs of faculty and students and enhances sustainable community economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The institute facilitates research and consulting agreements.
$4,763,614 spent$5,631,492 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,763,614.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.1M to $7.7M (+51%).
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 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Patrick Clark
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $60k → $922k.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 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
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
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 OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $421k on record.
- MA$284k
- OR$137k
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 OF CINCINNATI 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,347,627 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($2,583,745). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $5,347,627 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,583,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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