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BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC

BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION ($32,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$505k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$540k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Bio Nebraska Life Sciences Assoc does

Mission

To create an environment to share ideas and support, provide members a voice to be heard, foster growth and align industry influences, and aid in the development of a highly educated workforce.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote biotechnology and life sciences in nebraska

    $376,908 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $376,908.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($241k) Expenses 100 ($206k) Net assets 100 ($170k)2018 Revenue 111 ($268k) Expenses 116 ($239k) Net assets 117 ($199k)2019 Revenue 121 ($293k) Expenses 118 ($242k) Net assets 147 ($249k)2020 Revenue 104 ($252k) Expenses 112 ($231k) Net assets 159 ($270k)2021 Revenue 112 ($271k) Expenses 117 ($241k) Net assets 177 ($300k)2022 Revenue 167 ($403k) Expenses 173 ($357k) Net assets 204 ($346k)2023 Revenue 192 ($463k) Expenses 191 ($393k) Net assets 245 ($416k)2024 Revenue 162 ($391k) Expenses 185 ($382k) Net assets 250 ($425k)2025 Revenue 210 ($505k) Expenses 189 ($389k) Net assets 318 ($540k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (189)Net assets (318)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $432k to $541k (+25%).

$174k
$208k
$253k
$270k
$302k
$346k
$419k
$432k
$541k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’17
$29k
’18
$51k
’19
$21k
’20
$30k
’21
$46k
’22
$70k
’23
$9k
’24
$116k
’25
17
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

Rob Owen

Executive director

Board chair

Michael Dixon

Board chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171613171818181820
Joined·+0+0+4+1+6+4+4+5
No longer listed·13006443
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC’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

BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

’17
’18
’19
Nebraska out of state home

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

Organizations like BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC

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 Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC: 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 BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC?
BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION ($32,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $32,500 in grants to BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC?
BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIO NEBRASKA LIFE SCIENCES ASSOC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2025), 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