Kansas · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Kansas) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,739,149 to it, the largest being FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ($7,245,332). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $252M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $75M
- Net assets
- $191M
What University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute does
Mission
Promoting and aiding in the fulfillment of scientific research, educational, and service functions of the university of kansas medical center. Manages grants and contracts for projects conducted by principal investigators who serve as faculty at the university of kansas medical center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The research institute was established in 1992 to promote, support, and enhance medical research for the benefit of the public by administering funded research projects on behalf of the university of kansas medical center (kumc). The research institute's objectives are to: 1) serve kumc by promoting and operating at the highest level of administrative and financial honesty and integrity, 2) foster individual consortia partnerships between kumc researchers and national, regional and local research bio-medical communities, 3) enhance revenue to researchers and the university through the transfer of research discoveries and other information to the private sector; and 4) facilitate cooperative research interactions domestically and internationally between the kumc and corporations, and with other research centers throughout the greater kansas city metropolitan area.
$203,005,429 spentof which $20,662,745 as grants$233,641,554 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $203,005,429.
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 $108M to $145M (+34%).
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.
4% of UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
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
Ruth Sosnoff
Executive director, strategic initiatives
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $4.8M → $9.8M.
8 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
95% 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 OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 14% · 2020 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 30% · 2023 10% — 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
46% of UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0B on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$979.0M
- Department of Commerce$32.7M
- Department of Defense$28.5M
- National Science Foundation$3.6M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.3M
- Department of Agriculture$630k
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 KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- University of Ks · exempt
- University of Kansas Memorial Corp · exempt
- Ku Center for Tech Commercialization Inc · exempt
- Student Union of Univ of Ks Med Ctr · exempt
- University of Kansas Center for Research · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Kansas) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,739,149 to it, the largest being FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ($7,245,332). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $74,739,149 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $7,245,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 125 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