Missouri · Nonprofit
BIOGENERATOR
BIOGENERATOR (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,850 to it, the largest being MISSOURI TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ($446,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $484k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Biogenerator does
Mission
To advance st. Louis' regional prosperity by cultivating a thriving biosciences sector. Biogenerator pursues this mission by producing for the region a robust pipeline of successful bioscience companies and entrepreneurs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
As part of its proof of concept purpose, Biogenerator assists in the development of organizations, which meet the exempt purpose of Biogenerator by providing guidance/feedback on business strategies, presentations, business plans, fund-raising strategies, corporate partner negotiations, introducing companies to high quality professional service providers and assisting in preparation of financial projections, budgets and timelines. Biogenerator funded services to 53 companies in 2024.
$7,553,023 spent85% of program spendingBiogenerator created a 17,150 square foot lab facility which is made available to client companies or entrepreneurs in the pre-company/earliest phases of commercialization to establish laboratory operations and initiate proof of concept studies without having to raise the capital required to purchase most equipment and rent laboratory space.
$1,339,078 spent$796,345 earned by the program15% of program spendingA subset of Biogenerator staff provide educational services and mentoring to prospective and inexperienced entrepreneurs with the intention of equipping the individuals with the knowledge to successfully develop a technology and bring that benefit to the community. This program, while still active, is integrated in all areas of Biogenerator support.
$38,608 spent0% of program spendingBiogenerator investment staff offers commercialization guidance and advice on a subset of more promising concepts originating from university faculty or entrepreneurs about the commercialization process, and working with the individuals, helps to formulate a development plan by providing support in the form of advice and mentoring. It connects new businesses to professional services including law firms and accounting firms, recruits scientific and management talent and direct entrepreneurs to management training programs.Biogenerator staff continuously network to seek out commercially promising technologies. They meet with university faculty, including washington university, saint louis university, and the university of missouri/st. Louis. They routinely network with corporations based in st. Louis with a focus on life sciences, such as monsanto, sigma aldrich, and mallinckrodt. Biogenerator also works with a variety of development partners including biostl, cic@cet, the donald danforth plant science center, cortex innovation community, missouri technology corporation, the city of st. Louis, and st. Louis county.as a result, Biogenerator staff invest considerable time in…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,930,709.
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 2018 to 2019, from $16M to $11M (−33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 16% · 2022 8% · 2023 39% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of BIOGENERATOR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Donn Rubin
Board member/chair/sec/treas
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250k → $38k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $43M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Biostl). These are real filings, and they are not money BIOGENERATOR raised.
From the IRS filings of BIOGENERATOR’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
BIOGENERATOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 BIOGENERATOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
100% of BIOGENERATOR's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
BIOGENERATOR receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $484k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BIOGENERATOR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
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 BIOGENERATOR
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Biogenerator Catalyst 013 LLC · disregarded
- St Louis Life Sciences Project · exempt
- Biostl · exempt
- Biogenerator Catalyst 010 LLC · partnership
- Biogenerator Catalyst 012 LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIOGENERATOR: 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 BIOGENERATOR?
- BIOGENERATOR (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,850 to it, the largest being MISSOURI TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ($446,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIOGENERATOR have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $483,850 in grants to BIOGENERATOR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIOGENERATOR?
- MISSOURI TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $446,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIOGENERATOR 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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