Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($37). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $37
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Windber Research Institute does
Mission
The chan soon-shiong institute of molecular medicine at windber is committed to discovering molecular diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and developing advanced disease prevention measures that will lead to early diagnosis and treatment, decreased disease and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Apollo year 4 - wri has a long history of collaborating with walter reed national military medical, initially focusing on the clinical breast care project (cbcp) and now expanding to pan-cancer studies which now includes the apollo project. Wrl's overarching role for the apollo project is to provide a central biorepository for sample inventory management, sample processing, distribution and long-term storage. Additionally, sample quality will be assessed to ensure suitability for research. Wrl's informatics infrastructure system will be used to enhance clinicopathologic data collection and management, support molecular data management, and integrate and render data available for research. The bioinformatics team will analyze data to uncover molecular differences that can be used in diseases classification, biomarker discovery and early diseases detection.
$1,768,064 spent27% of program spendingBccoe '22 - breast cancer translational research center of excellence. Wri has been providing biobanking, informatics infrastructure and bioinformatics services to cbcp for more than 25 years. The biobank at wri is college of american pathologist (cap) accredited, and serves as the central repository for all the cbcp biospecimen collections. In view of this, we maintain the highest industry standards and best practices in the management of cbcp sample inventory. To date we have over 280,000 cbcp sample aliquots stored in our facility and maintain 24/7 monitoring of storage freezers among other quality measures. We have established quality management systems that ensures sustained quality of the stored biospecimens. These standards are in accordance with our accreditation standards and ensured for all future collections.
$1,697,772 spent25% of program spendingBccoe '23 - breast cancer translational research center of excellence. Wri has been providing biobanking, informatics infrastructure and bioinformatics services to cbcp for more than 25 years. The biobank at wri is college of american pathologist (cap) accredited, and serves as the central repository for all the cbcp biospecimen collections. In view of this, we maintain the highest industry standards and best practices in the management of cbcp sample inventory. To date we have over 280,000 cbcp sample aliquots stored in our facility and maintain 24/7 monitoring of storage freezers among other quality measures. We have established quality management systems that ensures sustained quality of the stored biospecimens. These standards are in accordance with our accreditation standards and ensured for all future collections.
$909,122 spent14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$2,284,639 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,659,597.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $7.9M to $10M (+29%).
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 94% · 2022 91% · 2023 95% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Hai Hu
President & CEO
Board chair
Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WINDBER 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WINDBER 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Windber Hospital Inc · exempt
- Windber Healthcare Foundation · exempt
- Windber Hospital Palliative Care Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINDBER 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 WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($37). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37 in grants to WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINDBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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