The B. H. Roberts Foundation (BHR) is a 501c3 non-profit corporation that supports education and research related to the culture, doctrine, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BHR has a bias toward faith and believes that open research can support a healthy, mature and justified belief in the gospel.
The foundation supports various projects including an archival database of primary sources related to difficult topics in Mormonism, original research articles, and research grants for academic and independent researchers and artists. BHR is staffed by fulltime and part-time researchers and content creators, as well as the occasional intern.
Josh Coates is the Executive Director at BHR. Josh studied large scale parallel systems at the University of California, Berkeley and spent over twenty years in the data storage and edtech industries.
