Virginia · Nonprofit
Biomedical Engineering Society
Biomedical Engineering Society (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,140 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($160,450). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Biomedical Engineering Society does
Mission
Organizations Mission:To build and support the biomedical engineering community (locally, nationally, and internationally) with activities designed to communicate recent advances, discoveries, and inventions; to promote education and professional development; and integrate the perspectives of the academic, medical, governmental, and business sectors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual Meeting: Biomedical Engineering Society continued the tradition offering an excellent technical content and a meeting environment that offered many opportunities for discussion and social interaction. Highlights of the meeting included topics on artificial organs, cardiovascular system, biomaterials, cellular engineering, neural engineering, biomechanics, tissue engineering, job fair and exhibition.
$1,109,688 spentof which $52,576 as grants$3,451,054 earned by the program49% of program spendingMembership: The membership consisted of a wide variety of professionals and leaders that were helpful in the professional development and contributed to the pursuit of excellence in the field of biomedical engineering. There are several categories of membership; regular members, associate members, student members, emeritis members, and corporate members. Bmes publishes a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which is included in the membership fee of regular members.
$950,534 spentof which $20,441 as grants$478,065 earned by the program42% of program spendingSpecial Interest Groups: The Organization has established a process for members of The Society who have an interest in forming special interest groups (SIGs). The purpose of SIGs are to provide networking opportunities for the exchange of information and ideas in a specific research area, to provide members with a forum to network and discuss issues relevant to this research area, to provide The Society with a direct avenue to members with specific expertise and to provide members with an avenue for professional development within a specific research area.
$225,511 spentof which $40,392 as grants$201,162 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,285,733.
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.
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 $7.5M to $9.6M (+27%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 12% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
John Falcioni
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $70k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Biomedical Engineering Society’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
Biomedical Engineering Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Biomedical Engineering Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“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
Biomedical Engineering Society 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. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding Biomedical Engineering Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $582k on record.
- National Science Foundation$309k
- Department of Health and Human Services$273k
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 Biomedical Engineering Society
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Biomedical Engineering Society: 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 Biomedical Engineering Society?
- Biomedical Engineering Society (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,140 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($160,450). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Biomedical Engineering Society have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $340,140 in grants to Biomedical Engineering Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Biomedical Engineering Society?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $160,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Biomedical Engineering Society 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.
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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 4 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