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Addgene Inc

Addgene Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,453,644 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($1,050,659). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$26M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$18M
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Addgene Inc does

Mission

Addgene, inc. Provides research support service dedicated to archiving and distributing plasmids that appear in published articles. By linking plasmids with publications, scientists are always connected to data generated from the materials that they are requesting. The company's goal is to compile a comprehensive library of plasmids to facilitate research and discovery.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The storage and distribution of dna-based reagents in support of scientific research.

    $22,172,546 spentof which $26,598 as grants$24,557,778 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,172,546.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 126 ($16M) Expenses 125 ($15M) Net assets 109 ($11M)2019 Revenue 152 ($20M) Expenses 153 ($19M) Net assets 120 ($12M)2020 Revenue 159 ($21M) Expenses 150 ($18M) Net assets 157 ($16M)2021 Revenue 186 ($24M) Expenses 166 ($20M) Net assets 195 ($20M)2022 Revenue 187 ($24M) Expenses 194 ($24M) Net assets 200 ($20M)2023 Revenue 204 ($26M) Expenses 218 ($27M) Net assets 197 ($20M)2024 Revenue 204 ($26M) Expenses 227 ($28M) Net assets 184 ($18M)
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Revenue (204)Expenses (227)Net assets (184)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $22M to $64M (+189%).

$11M
$12M
$14M
$18M
$22M
$64M
$61M
$57M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of Addgene Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$712k
’17
$958k
’18
$1.0M
’19
$2.3M
’20
$3.7M
’21
$506k
’22
−$233k
’23
−$1.3M
’24
6.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Chonnettia Jones

President/Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed1720212123232323
Joined·+5+2+5+2+3+2+0
No longer listed·2150320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $84k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Addgene Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Addgene Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Addgene Inc.

43%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

0% of Addgene Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Addgene Inc draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

WA
NY
MA
CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Addgene Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding Addgene Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record — $4.2M federal, $960 state.

Federal$4.2M
grants $4.2Mcontracts $6k
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22
23
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26
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$4.2M
  • Department of Defense$6k
State$960
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14
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Top programs
  • Lab,Medical Supplies-Materials$875
  • Laboratory Svcs and Supplies$85

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Addgene Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Addgene Inc?
Addgene Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,453,644 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($1,050,659). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Addgene Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,453,644 in grants to Addgene Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Addgene Inc?
CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,659 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Addgene Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing