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BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE AGOURON INSTITUTE ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$276k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$21k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction does

Mission

Blast is organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3). The main activity of blast is to organize and host a biennial conference/meeting (each being a "blast meeting") at which researchers in the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction scientific research community can meet, collaborate, and further their scientific research. Blast meetings are held in odd numbered years. The hybrid blast xviii meeting was held in january 2025 in cancun, mexico and was attended by 121 scientists in person and 100 scientists online.between blast meetings, we facilitate interaction and communication among members of the blast research community using digital means (e.g. X and bluesky, email, website). In particular, we share and discuss published and unpublished research progress, advertise relevant job openings, and publicize other conferences.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Planning for blast xviii meeting, to be held in january 2025. Actions included:*identifying a hotel, completing negotiations, signing a contract, and paying a deposit.*identifying a provider of audio-visual services, negotiating, and signing a contact.*identifying two keynote speakers*identifying seven chairs of scientific sessions*identifying a meeting review committee*identifying a social media chair*creating a budget, deciding on registration fees, and advertising the meeting*conducting a contest to create a meeting logo*soliciting nominations for a scientific achievement award and deciding on the winner, who will be announced at the meeting.

    $27,020 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,020.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($273k) Expenses 100 ($249k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2020 Revenue 0 ($6) Expenses 2 ($4k) Net assets 90 ($22k)2021 Revenue 13 ($35k) Expenses 5 ($12k) Net assets 183 ($44k)2022 Revenue 2 ($5k) Expenses 1 ($3k) Net assets 190 ($46k)2023 Revenue 80 ($219k) Expenses 88 ($218k) Net assets 193 ($47k)2024 Revenue 0 ($415) Expenses 12 ($29k) Net assets 75 ($18k)2025 Revenue 101 ($276k) Expenses 110 ($273k) Net assets 85 ($21k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (101)Expenses (110)Net assets (85)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 $47k to $18k (−61%).

$24k
$22k
$44k
$46k
$47k
$18k
$21k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’19
−$4k
’20
$23k
’21
$2k
’22
$874
’23
−$29k
’24
$2k
’25
0.9
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.

201920232025
Listed767
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION’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.

Where its funders are

BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5k to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: 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 BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION?
BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE AGOURON INSTITUTE ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION.
Who is the largest funder of BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION?
THE AGOURON INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BACTERIAL LOCOMOTION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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