Virginia · Nonprofit
VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES
VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,520,739 to it, the largest being Norwich University ($3,449,953). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $876k
What Vmi Research Laboratories does
Mission
Vmi research labs exists to serve as the research and development arm of the virginia military institute. Its purpose is to improve the effectiveness of and to aid directly or indirectly vmi's prime mission - education of the undergraduate student. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Projects in collaboration with the united states department of agriculture, the united states army, the united states navy, the united states air force, nasa, nsa, the national science foundation, the virginia department of wildlife resources, the university of wyoming, commonwealth cyber initiative, virginia alliance for semiconductor technology, local governments, other not for profits and private industry.
$1,750,014 spent$129,346 earned by the program88% of program spendingEducational activities including international initiatives.
$248,196 spentof which $37,684 as grants12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,998,210.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+40%).
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: 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Jose Gomez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES’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
VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES.
“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
VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
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.
Government funding VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $871k on record.
- Department of Defense$476k
- Department of Agriculture$306k
- Department of Commerce$89k
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 VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES: 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 VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES?
- VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,520,739 to it, the largest being Norwich University ($3,449,953). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,520,739 in grants to VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES?
- Norwich University is the largest funder on record, with $3,449,953 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3 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