Advanced Medical Research Foundation Incd/b/a Nile Albright Research Fdn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510209657
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6172781800
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,383,947
- Expenses
- $2,756,732
- Assets
- $94,225,907
- Liabilities
- $4,601
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTINA B ALBRIGHT (PRESIDENT)
- NILE L ALBRIGHT MD (FORMER PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- OLIVER ROBINSON (TREASURER): $135,740 total reported compensation
- NILE L ALBRIGHT MD (FORMER PRESIDENT): $130,102 total reported compensation
- MARTINA B ALBRIGHT (PRESIDENT): $75,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is organized, and shall be operated, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of, one or more charitable organizations that promote the advancement of medicine, engage in medical and scientific research and promote public education related to the foregoing and that have been recognized by the internal revenue service as organizations described in section 501(c)(3) and as organizations described in either section 509(a)(1) or section 509(a)(2) of the internal revenue code.
What it reported doing in 2025
To support clinical cancer research and to collect, analyze & disseminate information to interested parties to promote a better understanding of cancer and better opportunities for patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.8%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 34.18; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.8% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.