New York · Nonprofit
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,730,214 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($1,864,131). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $-5866540
What Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research does
Mission
The Burke Neurological Institute BNI is a research institute dedicated to finding cures for chronic neurological disabilities by conducting research involving protection from and repair of neurological diseases such as stroke traumatic brain injury TBI spinal cord injury Alzheimers disease and cerebral palsy. We translate groundbreaking research into clinical treatments to repair the brain and spinal cord to help people walk talk see and remember again.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Burke Neurological Institute BNI conducts research involving protection from and repair of neurological diseases such as stroke traumatic brain injury TBI spinal cord injury Alzheimers disease and cerebral palsy. In pursuing this goal Burke Neurological Institute seeks to harness the best in contemporary neuroscience to advance interventions to improve brain recovery and recovery function. This endeavor is actively advanced by frequent and lively interchange between scientists working on novel pharmacological biological and robotic approaches to repair the damaged brain and spinal cord. Faculty at Burke Neurological Institute are experts in the repair of neurological impairments and are committed to help translate these approaches to the bedside. A number of important clinical trials have been completed and are ongoing. However we are far from reaching our clinical goals and potential as consequent chronic disability remains a large and almost silent epidemic.
$13,471,780 spent$572,986 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,471,780.
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 2018 to 2019, from $15M to $10M (−28%).
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 54% · 2018 55% · 2019 57% · 2020 61% · 2021 56% · 2022 49% · 2023 57% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Rajiv Ratan MD PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Robert Baldoni
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $240k → $524k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $32M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Winifred Mast Burke Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research raised.
From the IRS filings of Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research’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
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 58% · 2019 68% · 2020 53% · 2021 60% · 2022 62% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
62% of Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k 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
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- WM Burk Corporation · exempt
- WM Burke Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research?
- Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,730,214 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($1,864,131). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,730,214 in grants to Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research?
- Cornell University is the largest funder on record, with $1,864,131 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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