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2012 Financial Summary *
Research Grants
I N 2 0 1 2 , T H E B R A I N A N E U R Y S M F O U N D AT I O N A W A R D E D T E N G R A N T S T O T A L I N G $ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0
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2012 Revenues - $ 1,024,788
12 %
Events
$554,936
54 %
34 %
Donations by Individuals
$349,743
Corporate Donations
$120,109
ince 1994, when The Brain Aneurysm Foundation was established in Boston
on August 19, 1994, as a public charity, our funding has been targeted to
incidence of brain aneurysm ruptures. The foundation has no endowment; every dollar we raise is deployed to advance research to reduce the incidence of brain The evening featured an address by Ralph G. Dacey, Jr., MD, the Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor and Chairman of Neurological Surgery, as well as the
Neurosurgeon-In-Chief of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.
support for those affected by brain aneurysms, and to educate patients, their
families, and the medical community about brain aneurysms.
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation keeps a sharp eye on expenses and strives to
12 %
8 %
30 %
Research
$252,439
maintain a low overhead.
Education/Support/Awareness
$422,871
50 %
Management and General
$69,011
Fundraising
$95,708
* Audited financial results for 2012 not currently available.
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ultimately improve outcomes for patients with brain aneurysms. The foundation’s Research Grant Committee is headed by Robert Rosenwasser, MD, FACS, Professor of Radiology
and Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He, along with three other members of the Medical Advisory Board, scores all grant applications
to determine the grant recipients based on the highest scores.
On September 20, 2012 at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis, MO, the grants were awarded at the Sixth Annual Brain Aneurysm Foundation Research Grant Symposium. Thanks
to our supporters continued dedication to research to improve the lives of those affected by a brain aneurysm tomorrow, the foundation was able to award ten grants totaling
$200,000 in 2012. This made the total amount of grants provided in the last five years over a half a million dollars! The funding we have distributed has enabled our recipients to
move their projects forward and be their first step in securing further funding from other sources such as the NIH and AHA.
providing critical awareness, education, support and research funding to reduce the
aneurysm ruptures, to create wider