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Lab Central Inc

Lab central supports creation of innovative startup biotechnology companies by providing a world-class environment for entreprenuers, and a fully functional life science laboratory within the kendall square innovation hub.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$79kScience & Tech$79kEducation$55kEmployment$40kCommunity Improvement$40kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERON LABORATORIES INC$13,000
PHAGEPRO PBC$13,000
NEOCLEASE INC$13,000
COAGULO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC$13,000
JOSEPH BEYEN DBA NANOPLEX$13,000
LYBRA BIO$13,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTERON LABORATORIES INC: $13k → 7%MASSBIOED FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%PHAGEPRO PBC: $13k → 11%HMS MEDSCIENCE: $5k → 16%LIFE SCIENCE CARES: $5k → 8%HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION THE LEAH PROJECT: $10k → 16%CELLENS INC: $15k → 8%TSNE MISSIONWORKS: $40k → 16%GUARDIAN BIO INC: $15k → 8%JOSEPH BEYEN DBA NANOPLEX: $13k → 16%QURCAN THERAPEUTICS: $15k → 8%NEOCLEASE INC: $13k → 16%SPHERIC BIO: $15k → 8%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $40k → 16%HDAX THERAPEUTICS: $10k → 8%LYBRA BIO: $13k → 16%CELLFORMA: $10k → 8%HOVANA INC: $10k → 8%TUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $10k → 8%VIOLET THERAPEUTICS: $10k → 8%NEUROBIONICS: $10k → 8%PROTEINEA: $10k → 8%VENOVA TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 8%MATERIALIZE BIO: $10k → 8%JUST A START CORPORATION: $15k → 8%THE BIOBUILDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%COAGULO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC: $13k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Inc

Massbio is committed to advancing massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the health care system and improve patient lives.

2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

3
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
4
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives Inc

Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…

Science & Tech
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Bioversity Inc

Bioversity, inc. was formed to implement industry-aligned, expanded workforce training initiatives. bioversity operates training centers, runs programming, and creates partnerships to provide massachusetts residents the skills and hands-on…

Employment
7
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
12
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc

The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Health Resources in Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGUARDIAN BIO INC — $15,000 · OtherGUARDIAN BIO INCCELLENS INC — $15,000 · OtherCELLENS INCNEOCLEASE INC — $13,000 · OtherNEOCLEASE INCLYBRA BIO — $13,000 · OtherLYBRA BIOINTERON LABORATORIES INC — $13,000 · OtherINTERON LABORATORIES INCJOSEPH BEYEN DBA NANOPLEX — $13,000 · OtherJOSEPH BEYEN DBA NANOPLEXPHAGEPRO PBC — $13,000 · OtherPHAGEPRO PBCCOAGULO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC — $13,000 · OtherCOAGULO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INCIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherPROTEINEA — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC — $10,000 · OtherNEUROBIONICS — $10,000 · OtherHOVANA INC — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherCELLFORMA — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NE…JUST-A-START CORPORATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementJUST-A-START CO…MASSACHUSETTS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS B…TUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $10,000 · EducationTUTORING PLUS O…BIOBUILDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationBIOBUILDER EDUC…JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $40,000 · EmploymentJEWISH VOCA…GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $15,000 · Science & TechLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $5,000 · Health
Other$233,000Community Improvement$55,000Education$55,000Employment$40,000Science & Tech$15,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIOBUILDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
  • Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION
  • Who funds TUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC
  • Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC
  • Who funds BIOBUILDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Non-Profit Management FoundationMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lab Central Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Health Resources in Action Inc39% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc39% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation16% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated16% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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