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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 2018 they had $591 million in revenue and $720 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:

$591,154,625

Assets:

$720,619,580

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
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
2014-09	Sep 21, 2015	990	View PDF
...and five more Form 990 PDFs

Financials for Southwest Research Institute

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Federated campaigns	$0	$0
Membership dues	$0	$0
Fundraising event contributions	$0	$0
Related organizations	$249,437	$234,668	6.3%
Government grants (contributions)	$0	$0
Normal grants, contributions, etc.	$10,739	$51,061	-79.0%
<em>Non-cash contributions included in above</em>	$0	$0
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$260,176	$285,729	-8.9%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$260,176	$285,729	-8.9%
Program services	$587,141,075	$534,794,304	9.8%
Investment income and dividends	$3,240,812	$2,058,886	57.4%
Tax-exempt bond proceeds	$0	$0
Royalty revenue	$449,578	$320,156	40.4%
Net rental income	$62,984	$59,588	5.7%
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	$591,154,625	$537,518,663	10.0%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Grants to govts. and orgs. in USA	$292,187	$279,612	4.5%
Grants to individuals in USA	$40,000	$40,000
Grants to govts., orgs., and individuals outside USA	$0	$0
Benefits paid to or for members	$0	$0
Compensation of current officers, etc.	$6,766,671	$6,670,701	1.4%
Compensation not included above, to disqualified persons	$478,473	$352,859	35.6%
Non-officer salaries and wages	$227,721,972	$219,845,692	3.6%
Pension/retirement accruals and contributions	$18,708,787	$18,457,240	1.4%
Other employee benefits	$21,241,788	$32,981,287	-35.6%
Payroll taxes	$15,977,821	$15,491,335	3.1%
Management fees	$0	$0
Legal fees	$359,364	$3,410,704	-89.5%
Accounting fees	$433,452	$234,965	84.5%
Lobbying fees	$0	$0
Pro. fundraising fees	$0	$0
Investment mgmt fees	$0	$0
Other fee-for-service	$628,523	$270,182	132.6%
Advertising and promotion	$0	$0
Office expenses	$17,110,830	$13,566,938	26.1%
Information tech. expenses	$2,037,095	$2,039,749	-0.1%
Royalty expenses	$0	$0
Occupancy	$20,008,985	$18,790,276	6.5%
Travel	$5,943,670	$6,197,406	-4.1%
Public official travel and entertainment	$0	$0
Conferences, meetings, etc.	$403,014	$405,534	-0.6%
Interest	$1,208	$1,232	-1.9%
Payments to affiliates	$0	$0
Depreciation, amortization, etc.	$28,726,195	$27,607,914	4.1%
Insurance	$0	$0
All other expenses	$194,130,288	$173,879,458	11.6%
Total expenses	$561,010,323	$540,523,084	3.8%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Cash (non-interest-bearing)	$0	$0
Savings, short-term investments, etc.	$197,053,851	$163,369,068	20.6%
Pledges and grants receivable	$0	$0
Accounts receivable	$127,582,562	$105,163,180	21.3%
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	$12,546,193	$12,350,945	1.6%
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges	$15,138,486	$9,996,631	51.4%
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation	$285,755,617	$296,404,738	-3.6%
Investments, publicly traded securities	$0	$0
Investments, other securities	$0	$0
Investments, program-related	$0	$0
Intangible assets	$0	$0
Other assets	$82,542,871	$78,577,498	5.0%
Total assets	$720,619,580	$665,862,060	8.2%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$103,136,785	$84,193,803	22.5%
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	$59,499,481	$62,093,542	-4.2%
Total liabilities	$162,636,266	$146,287,345	11.2%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Unrestricted net assets	$557,983,314	$519,574,715	7.4%
Temporarily restricted net assets	$0	$0
Permanently restricted net assets	$0	$0

Vendors for Southwest Research Institute

Vendor	Services	Amount paid	Date
Drupal	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
████	Recordkeeping and information management (computing, tabulating, data processing, etc.), Consulting (pension), Investment advisory (plan), Investment management, Participant communication; Investment management; Insurance	$289	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	$922,617	June 18, 2020
Walter D. Downing	Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer / Executive Vice Pres.	$705,849	June 18, 2020
███ ████ ███ ████████	Chief Financial Officer Vice President - - Finance Institute Secretary	$373,904	June 18, 2020
███ █████	Vice President of the Space Science and Engineering Division	-	Sept. 10, 2018
████ █████	Vice President - R and D	-	Aug. 6, 2018
███████ █ ████████	Executive Director	$355,265	Sept. 30, 2018
██████ █ ██████████	General Counsel	$144,640	Sept. 30, 2018
████ ██ ████	Director Research - Applied Sensing Department	-	Sept. 30, 2018
█████ ██ ███████	Director - A and G	-	April 26, 2018
██████ ██ ████	Director	-	Oct. 2, 2018
...and 26 more key personnel

Peer engineer and technology research centers

	Name	Type	Revenue	Location
1	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	501(c)(3)	$220 million	Boulder, CO
2	Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy	501(c)(3)	$370 million	Washington, DC
3	SRC	501(c)(3)	$240 million	North Syracuse, NY
4	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization	501(c)(3)	$1.0 billion	Australia,
5	Electric Power Research Institute	501(c)(3)	$421 million	Palo Alto, CA
6	Institut Pasteur	501(c)(3)	$299 million	France,
7	Universities Space Research Association	501(c)(3)	$162 million	Columbia, MD
8	Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY)	501(c)(3)	$1.1 billion	Albany, NY
9	SRI International	501(c)(3)	$408 million	Menlo Park, CA
10	Draper Laboratory	501(c)(3)	$607 million	Cambridge, MA
11	Aerospace Corporation	501(c)(3)	$1.0 billion	Los Angeles, CA
12	National Academy of Sciences	501(c)(3)	$298 million	Washington, DC
13	Noblis	501(c)(3)	$322 million	Reston, VA
14	Weizmann Institute of Science	501(c)(3)	$613 million	Israel,
15	New York University in Abu Dhabi Corporation	501(c)(3)	$183 million	New York, NY
16	Bar Ilan University (BIU)	501(c)(3)	$383 million	New York, NY
17	Mitre	501(c)(3)	$1.7 billion	Mclean, VA
18	Oxford University	501(c)(3)	$2.6 billion	United Kingdom,
19	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	501(c)(3)	$1.5 billion	Chevy Chase, MD
20	The University of Western Ontario	501(c)(3)	$1.1 billion	Canada,
21	American Museum of Natural History	501(c)(3)	$205 million	New York, NY
22	The Rockefeller University	501(c)(3)	$496 million	New York, NY
23	United States PHARMACOPEIAL Convention (USP)	501(c)(3)	$332 million	Rockville, MD
24	Research Triangle Institute (RTI)	501(c)(3)	$965 million	Research Triangle Park, NC
25	Harmony Public Schools	501(c)(3)	$345 million	Houston, TX

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