West Virginia · Nonprofit
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION (West Virginia) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,281,434 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($3,214,206). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $186M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $59M
What West Virginia University Research Corporation does
Mission
To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oin 1985, the West Virginia University Research Corporation (research corporation) was created in accordance with west virginia state law and with the expressed purpose to foster and support research at west virginia university (university). The research corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, including for such purposes: (1) to foster and support research at west virginia university; and(2) to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management, and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of west virginia university.research is an integral part of the university's mission and the research corporation facilitates this mission through its role as a fiscal agent for sponsored projects. The research corporation also uses its unique status to maximize the effectiveness of technology transfer in addition to its economic and business development functions. One important indication of this success is the university's classification as an r1, doctoral university - highest research activity, by the carnegie foundation. Currently, there are 187 institutions recognized as an r1 institution and…
$169,584,592 spentof which $34,299,951 as grants$24,016,827 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $169,584,592.
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 2024 to 2025, from $163M to $180M (+10%).
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: 2017 75% · 2018 73% · 2019 74% · 2020 76% · 2021 76% · 2022 76% · 2023 78% · 2024 75% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.6M.
5 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $14M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Pittsburgh). These are real filings, and they are not money WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
86% 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 17% · 2021 24% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
41% of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394k 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
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION is better cushioned than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $903.6M on record — $903.5M federal, $32k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$430.9M
- National Science Foundation$134.9M
- Department of Energy$129.8M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$66.0M
- Department of Agriculture$44.1M
- Department of Labor$30.2M
- VT$32k
- DE$330
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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
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 West 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
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- State of West Virginia Dba West Virginia University · exempt
- West Virginia University Innovation Corporation · exempt
- F & P Realty Company · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION?
- WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION (West Virginia) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,281,434 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($3,214,206). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $21,281,434 in grants to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION?
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,214,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West 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 80 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