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Southwest Research Institute

Southwest Research Institute is a engineering or technology research center based in San Antonio, TX that was founded in 1966. As of 2019 they had $685 million in revenue and $761 million in assets.

SwRI exists to benefit government, industry & the public by conducting innovative applied & basic research; developing/transferring technology; establishing, maintaining & operating research facilities; & providing a challenging and rewarding work env...

EIN:

74-1070544

City:

San Antonio

State:

Texas

Website:

swri.org

Facebook:

facebook.com/southwestresearch

Twitter:

@swri

Founded:

1966

Type:

501(c)(3)

NTEE:

U40: Engineer and technology research centers

Revenue:

$685,545,163

Assets:

$761,804,112

Employees:

2,820

Fiscal year end:

September

Revenue trends:

Asset trends:

Program areas at Southwest Research Institute

Southwest Research Institute exists to benefit government, industry and the public by conducting innovative applied and basic research developing/transferring technology; establishing, maintaining and operating research facilities; and providing a challenging and rewarding work environment to fulfill its scientific, charitable, testing for public safety, literary and educational purposes.Scientific Research and Development directly related services are described at our website: www.swri.org. Additional information regarding federal government technical programs is available by searching for Southwest Research Institute single audit at httpharvestercensusgovfacdissem

Form 990s for Southwest Research Institute

Fiscal year ending	Date received by IRS	Form	PDF link
2019-09	Oct 8, 2020	990	View PDF
2018-09	Oct 11, 2019	990	View PDF
2017-09	Nov 15, 2018	990	View PDF
2016-09	Oct 30, 2017	990	View PDF
2015-09	Oct 19, 2016	990	View PDF
...and six more Form 990 PDFs

Financials for Southwest Research Institute

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Federated campaigns	$0	$0
Membership dues	$0	$0
Fundraising event contributions	$0	$0
Related organizations	$222,476	$249,437	-10.8%
Government grants (contributions)	$0	$0
Normal grants, contributions, etc.	$352,899	$10,739	3186.1%
<em>Non-cash contributions included in above</em>	$352,597	$0	999%
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$575,375	$260,176	121.1%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$575,375	$260,176	121.1%
Program services	$677,831,360	$587,141,075	15.4%
Investment income and dividends	$6,850,749	$3,240,812	111.4%
Tax-exempt bond proceeds	$0	$0
Royalty revenue	$212,059	$449,578	-52.8%
Net rental income	$75,620	$62,984	20.1%
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets	$0	$0
Net income from fundraising events	$0	$0
Net income from gaming activities	$0	$0
Net income from sales of inventory	$0	$0
Miscellaneous revenues	$0	$0
Total revenues	$685,545,163	$591,154,625	16.0%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Grants to govts. and orgs. in USA	$335,530	$292,187	14.8%
Grants to individuals in USA	$35,000	$40,000	-12.5%
Grants to govts., orgs., and individuals outside USA	$0	$0
Benefits paid to or for members	$0	$0
Compensation of current officers, etc.	$7,920,362	$6,766,671	17.0%
Compensation not included above, to disqualified persons	$507,353	$478,473	6.0%
Non-officer salaries and wages	$247,699,063	$227,721,972	8.8%
Pension/retirement accruals and contributions	$20,377,247	$18,708,787	8.9%
Other employee benefits	$28,551,147	$21,241,788	34.4%
Payroll taxes	$18,345,625	$15,977,821	14.8%
Management fees	$0	$0
Legal fees	$1,425,825	$359,364	296.8%
Accounting fees	$303,291	$433,452	-30.0%
Lobbying fees	$0	$0
Pro. fundraising fees	$0	$0
Investment mgmt fees	$0	$0
Other fee-for-service	$713,797	$628,523	13.6%
Advertising and promotion	$0	$0
Office expenses	$21,516,428	$17,110,830	25.7%
Information tech. expenses	$2,088,986	$2,037,095	2.5%
Royalty expenses	$0	$0
Occupancy	$20,260,446	$20,008,985	1.3%
Travel	$6,831,697	$5,943,670	14.9%
Public official travel and entertainment	$0	$0
Conferences, meetings, etc.	$420,779	$403,014	4.4%
Interest	$4,517	$1,208	273.9%
Payments to affiliates	$0	$0
Depreciation, amortization, etc.	$28,523,059	$28,726,195	-0.7%
Insurance	$0	$0
All other expenses	$238,597,083	$194,130,288	22.9%
Total expenses	$644,457,235	$561,010,323	14.9%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Cash (non-interest-bearing)	$1	$0	999%
Savings, short-term investments, etc.	$228,988,121	$197,053,851	16.2%
Pledges and grants receivable	$0	$0
Accounts receivable	$150,309,271	$127,582,562	17.8%
Loans receivable from officers, directors, etc.	$0	$0
Loans receivable from other disqualified persons	$0	$0
Notes and loans receivable	$0	$0
Inventories for use	$11,772,999	$12,546,193	-6.2%
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges	$4,981,287	$15,138,486	-67.1%
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation	$281,336,781	$285,755,617	-1.5%
Investments, publicly traded securities	$0	$0
Investments, other securities	$0	$0
Investments, program-related	$0	$0
Intangible assets	$0	$0
Other assets	$84,415,652	$82,542,871	2.3%
Total assets	$761,804,112	$720,619,580	5.7%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$104,977,599	$103,136,785	1.8%
Grants payable	$0	$0
Deferred revenue	$0	$0
Tax-exempt bond liabilities	$0	$0
Escrow or custodial account liability	$0	$0
Loans payable to officers and disqualified persons	$0	$0
Secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties	$0	$0
Unsecured notes and loans payable to unrelated third parties	$0	$0
Other liabilities	$65,346,002	$59,499,481	9.8%
Total liabilities	$170,323,601	$162,636,266	4.7%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Unrestricted net assets	$591,480,511	$557,983,314	6.0%
Temporarily restricted net assets	$0	$0
Permanently restricted net assets	$0	$0

Vendors for Southwest Research Institute

Vendor	Services	Amount paid	Date
Ernest and Young Us LLP	Tax accounting		2020-10-08
██████	Content management system software		2020-07-26
██████	Fundraising software		2020-07-26
███████ ███ ████	Fundraising software; Payment processing		2020-07-26
███████	Marketing software; CRM software; Content management system software		2020-07-26
███ ██ ███	Audit accounting		2019-12-31
██████ ██████████ █████████ ███████	Insurance		2019-12-31
█████ ██████████████ ████████	Insurance agent or broker	$13,992	2019-12-31
...and 24 more vendors

Personnel at Southwest Research Institute

Name	Title	Compensation	Most recent data
Adam L. Hamilton	President and Chief Executive Officer	$883,356	June 18, 2020
Walter D. Downing	Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer / Executive Vice Pres.	$673,574	June 18, 2020
███ ████ ███ ████████	Chief Financial Officer Vice President - - Finance Institute Secretary	$379,582	Oct. 8, 2020
███ █████	Vice President of the Space Science and Engineering Division	-	Sept. 10, 2018
████ █████	Vice President - R and D	-	Aug. 6, 2018
███████ █ ████████	Executive Director	$365,910	Sept. 30, 2019
██████ █ ██████████	General Counsel	$187,360	Sept. 30, 2019
████ ██ ████	Director Research - Applied Sensing Department	-	Sept. 30, 2018
█████ ██ ███████	Director - A and G	-	April 26, 2018
██████ ██ ████	Director	-	Oct. 2, 2018
...and 25 more key personnel

Peer engineer and technology research centers

	Name	Type	Revenue	Location
1	Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY)	501(c)(3)	$1.1 billion	Albany, NY
2	National Academy of Sciences	501(c)(3)	$298 million	Washington, DC
3	Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy	501(c)(3)	$369 million	Washington, DC
4	SRI International	501(c)(3)	$408 million	Menlo Park, CA
5	University Corporation of Atmospheric Research	501(c)(3)	$233 million	Boulder, CO
6	SRC	501(c)(3)	$279 million	North Syracuse, NY
7	Mitre	501(c)(3)	$1.8 billion	Mclean, VA
8	Aerospace Corporation	501(c)(3)	$1.1 billion	Los Angeles, CA
9	Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)	501(c)(3)	$260 million	Alexandria, VA
10	Noblis	501(c)(3)	$294 million	Reston, VA
11	New York University in Abu Dhabi Corporation	501(c)(3)	$183 million	New York, NY
12	Draper Laboratory	501(c)(3)	$653 million	Cambridge, MA
13	Electric Power Research Institute	501(c)(3)	$421 million	Palo Alto, CA
14	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization	501(c)(3)	$1.0 billion	Australia,
15	United States PHARMACOPEIAL Convention (USP)	501(c)(3)	$332 million	Rockville, MD
16	Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY)	501(c)(3)	$600 million	New York, NY
17	Weizmann Institute of Science	501(c)(3)	$613 million	Israel,
18	The Rockefeller University	501(c)(3)	$460 million	New York, NY
19	Institut Pasteur	501(c)(3)	$342 million	France,
20	Bar Ilan University (BIU)	501(c)(3)	$390 million	New York, NY
21	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	501(c)(3)	$203 million	Woods Hole, MA
22	Research Triangle Institute (RTI)	501(c)(3)	$967 million	Research Triangle Park, NC
23	Fermi Research Alliance LLC	501(c)(3)	$478 million	Batavia, IL
24	Alliance for Sustainable Energy	501(c)(3)	$411 million	Golden, CO
25	American Heart Association (AHA)	501(c)(3)	$746 million	Dallas, TX

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