California · Public charity
Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc
Biomade's mission is to enable domestic bioindustrial manufacturing at all scales, develop technologies to enhance u.s. Bioindustrial competitiveness, de-risk investment in relevant infrastructure, and expand the biomanufacturing workforce to realize the economic promise of industrial biotechnology.we do this by catalyzing collaboration…
- $37M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $253,860
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,826,381
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 54
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 26
- Total assets, FY2025
- $99M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $37M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $42M | 65% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $31M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $3.7M | 97% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $390k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyris Inc | $21,159,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Cleanjoule | $8,826,381 | 1 | n/a |
| Genomatica Inc | $5,844,573 | 4 | n/a |
| Cambium Biomaterials Inc | $5,358,118 | 3 | n/a |
| Farmed Materials | $5,215,839 | 3 | n/a |
| Cambium Biomaterials Inc | $4,911,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $4,717,143 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mitre Corporation | $4,408,856 | 3 | 0% |
| Technology Holding LLC | $3,012,483 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California Davis | $2,739,162 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyris Inc | $21,159,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Cleanjoule | $8,826,381 | 1 | n/a |
| Genomatica Inc | $5,844,573 | 4 | n/a |
| Cambium Biomaterials Inc | $5,358,118 | 3 | n/a |
| Farmed Materials | $5,215,839 | 3 | n/a |
| Cambium Biomaterials Inc | $4,911,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $4,717,143 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mitre Corporation | $4,408,856 | 3 | 0% |
| Technology Holding LLC | $3,012,483 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California Davis | $2,739,162 | 3 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $2,540,940 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California | $2,377,097 | 1 | n/a |
| Industrial Microbes | $2,262,337 | 3 | n/a |
| Iowa State University | $2,258,279 | 4 | n/a |
| Ginkgo Bioworks Inc | $2,191,253 | 2 | n/a |
| Capra Biosciences Inc | $1,372,490 | 3 | n/a |
| Tandem Repeat Technology Inc | $1,328,487 | 3 | n/a |
| 3cloud | $1,198,521 | 1 | n/a |
| Mango Materials Inc | $1,172,512 | 2 | n/a |
| Checkerspot Inc | $1,048,938 | 4 | n/a |
| Origin Materials | $968,736 | 2 | n/a |
| Kultevat | $883,946 | 2 | n/a |
| Superbrewed Food Inc | $849,517 | 4 | n/a |
| Montana State University | $831,499 | 1 | n/a |
| Graspxr | $786,294 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $777,716 | 3 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $747,338 | 2 | n/a |
| Sudhin Biopharma Co | $736,998 | 2 | n/a |
| Zero Acre Farms | $733,208 | 1 | n/a |
| Citrine Informatics Inc | $714,818 | 2 | n/a |
| Bluestem Biosciences Inc | $697,496 | 2 | n/a |
| Manus Bio | $676,382 | 2 | n/a |
| Tega Therapeutics Inc | $666,905 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Illinois | $551,218 | 1 | n/a |
| East Tennessee State University Foundation | $546,579 | 1 | 3% |
| East Tennessee State University | $503,662 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | $494,642 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Texas | $474,960 | 4 | n/a |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $459,091 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| General Probiotics Inc | $443,452 | 3 | n/a |
| Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc | $391,115 | 1 | 0% |
| North Carolina State University | $380,399 | 1 | n/a |
| Ideachem | $349,140 | 2 | n/a |
| Utah STEM Foundation | $334,482 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Hawaii System | $333,470 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $316,147 | 3 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $306,661 | 2 | 0% |
| Exozymes | $299,370 | 1 | n/a |
| Biobuilder Educational Foundation | $292,875 | 2 | 12% |
| University of Delaware | $280,080 | 2 | 0% |
| Ues Inc | $271,869 | 4 | n/a |
| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | $266,258 | 3 | n/a |
| Xperience Science | $263,953 | 1 | n/a |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $252,965 | 1 | 0% |
| Stemconnector | $250,636 | 2 | n/a |
| Utah STEM Foundation Inc | $227,396 | 1 | 30% |
| Microbyre | $180,454 | 1 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $176,692 | 3 | n/a |
| Valerian Materials | $123,377 | 2 | n/a |
| Xperience Science | $121,678 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | $120,984 | 1 | 0% |
| Finger Lakes Community College | $120,700 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Connecticut | $120,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Lygos Inc | $115,316 | 1 | n/a |
| State University of New York College at Purchase | $112,241 | 1 | n/a |
| Kultevat | $112,048 | 1 | n/a |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $60,335 | 1 | n/a |
| Paradigm Growth | $57,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Biosqueeze Inc | $54,596 | 1 | n/a |
| William Marsh Rice University | $53,786 | 1 | 0% |
| Modular Genetics | $52,719 | 2 | n/a |
| North Carolina a & T State University | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation | $49,940 | 2 | n/a |
| Albany State University | $49,346 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Akron | $48,324 | 2 | n/a |
| Kalion Inc | $45,015 | 2 | n/a |
| Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute Inc | $40,809 | 1 | n/a |
| Worcester Public Library | $39,884 | 2 | n/a |
| University Park Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Inc | $39,241 | 1 | n/a |
| Arctos | $38,631 | 1 | n/a |
| Delgado Community College | $30,137 | 2 | n/a |
| Signature Science LLC | $24,753 | 1 | n/a |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $23,616 | 2 | 0% |
| Agri-Tech Producers LLC | $20,625 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of North Carolina at Greensboro | $20,455 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Research Institute | $19,028 | 1 | 0% |
| Ars Biotechnica Inc | $14,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Daicel Arbor Biosciences | $11,799 | 1 | n/a |
| Galy Co | $10,209 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Akron Foundation | $8,016 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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About Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc
- How much does Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc give?
- Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc reported 73 grants totaling $37,298,805 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 54 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (92%), Employment (4%), Education (2%).
- Who are Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Amyris Inc ($21M), Cleanjoule ($8.8M), Genomatica Inc ($5.8M).
- Does Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northeastern University, University of Delaware, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc.
- Where is Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc based?
- Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem Inc is based in CA.
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