Biomedical Research and Education Foundation of Southern Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860622181
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5206294781
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,104,547
- Expenses
- $839,967
- Assets
- $575,858
- Liabilities
- $45,029
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANDESH DEV MD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET BRADLEY (EXECUTIVE DI): $105,969 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brefsa's research mission is to promote biomedical and health service research for the benefit of veteran patients.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brefsa provided salary support to savahcs for four research coordinators. Brefsa supports new investigators by providing coordinators to submit regulatory documents to open new research studies. Brefsa provided support for education and research presentations for one pi to present research materials at a medical research conference. Brefsa provided support for a resident to present research posters at the desert podiatric symposium. Brefsa hosted the graduation for the podiatry residents as apprecation for their participation in the 100 year research anniversary celebration and participation in the research program. Brefsa's long term goals remain dedicated to advancing biomedical research and medical education at the southern Arizona va health care system (savahcs). Brefsa's mission is to support research that improves the health and quality of life of veterans by enabling va investigators to conduct innovative basic, translational, and clinical research that would otherwise be inaccessible through federal funding mechanisms alone.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $631K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.