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API INNOVATION CENTER

API INNOVATION CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being MISSOURI TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$10M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$3.8M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Api Innovation Center does

Mission

Drive national health security and economic growth through u.s.-based production of medicines so that every patient, health care system and pharmacy retailer has access to critical medicines.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Apiic opened a cutting-edge research and development laboratory at the university of missourist. Louis, where scientists are pioneering new routes of synthesis for critical medicines vital to national health security. The team has and is developing and optimizing advanced manufacturing processes for five key active pharmaceutical ingredients (apis)using continuous-flow and innovative techniques to improve efficiency, yield, and purity. Beyond technical achievements, apiic emerged as a national thought leader by shaping policy, publishing influential research, and convening experts to address pharmaceutical supply chain resilience, positioning missouri as a model for publicprivate collaboration and advanced generic drug manufacturing.

    $4,592,116 spent$579,873 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,592,116.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2022 Revenue 98 ($108k) Expenses 1273 ($188k) Net assets 15 ($15k)2023 Revenue 3240 ($3.6M) Expenses 18786 ($2.8M) Net assets 842 ($801k)2024 Revenue 9406 ($10M) Expenses 48788 ($7.2M) Net assets 4023 ($3.8M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (9406)Expenses (48788)Net assets (4023)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 2023 to 2024, from $806k to $5.1M (+535%).

$95k
$15k
$806k
$5.1M
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 100% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of API INNOVATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’21
−$80k
’22
$787k
’23
$3.1M
’24
8.0
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

Anthony Sardella

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed671011
Joined·+1+5+2
No longer listed·021
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

API INNOVATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)355% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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In Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 32%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for API INNOVATION CENTER: 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 API INNOVATION CENTER?
API INNOVATION CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being MISSOURI TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does API INNOVATION CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to API INNOVATION CENTER.
Who is the largest funder of API INNOVATION CENTER?
MISSOURI TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like API INNOVATION CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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