Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,414 to it, the largest being THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ($1,229,638). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $188M
What American Type Culture Collection does
Mission
The American Type Culture Collection (atcc) is a global non-profit bioscience organization whose mission is to acquire, authenticate, preserve, develop, and distribute biological materials, information, technology, intellectual property, and standards for the advancement, validation, and application of scientific knowledge. Atcc provides these services to scientists in government, industry, education, healthcare, and research laboratories around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collections, research and informatics services: a 100 year old ongoing program for the isolation, collection, acquisition and provision of authentic cultures of living microorganisms, human, animal and plant cells, derivatives including genetic materials and related bioproducts in support of science. The collection's size was well over 100,000 strains and dna and rdna materials, and over 300,000 biological items were distributed to thousands of scientists worldwide. In addition to the materials, atcc maintains extensive information about the specimens, and related preservation and lab techniques thereto, in the collections. This information is made available to the scientific community through publications and the extensive atcc internet web site.
$102,013,981 spent$78,718,873 earned by the program90% of program spendingProfessional services: this program encompasses several activities related to the support of the atcc collections, providing special support services to the scientific community (1) applied sciences: provides expert technical support to the scientific community to properly identify, handle or otherwise utilize biological materials. These activities include laboratory, professional consultation, or technical management services. (2) patent deposit services: atcc provides storage facilities for safeguarding cultures deposited for patent purposes. Under the uspto rules these deposits must be made available, on issuance of the patent, to further enhance scientific research. Atcc provides safekeeping of the cultures and distribution to the research scientists.
$10,778,634 spentof which $9,521 as grants$6,675,009 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,792,615.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $144M to $185M (+28%).
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.
0% of AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (36% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Raymond H Cypess
CEO, chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $29k → $68k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bionexus Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION’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
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 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.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 42 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 science & tech nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $599.7M on record — $599.6M federal, $49k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$596.6M
- Department of Defense$2.0M
- Department of Agriculture$640k
- Department of Commerce$359k
- Environmental Protection Agency$23k
- DE$35k
- OR$10k
- OK$2k
- VT$2k
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 AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Atcc Global · exempt
- Bionexus Foundation · exempt
- Atcc Cell Systems Inc · corp_trust
- Bio Essentials Ltd · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION?
- AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,414 to it, the largest being THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ($1,229,638). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,510,414 in grants to AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION?
- THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $1,229,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 6 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