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ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM

ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,350,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$974k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$7.3M
Net assets
$329k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 96%
01What it does

What Engineering Biology Research Consortium does

Mission

To support and promote the vision and goals of the synthetic biology community by providing the future vision for synthetic biology, bringing together industrial and scientific communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Held national and international research conferences with participants from academia, industry and non-profit research organizations. Activities included research talks, poster talks and workshops on engineering biology. Ebrc engages in technical roadmapping exercises and development in general and in specific engineering biology application spaces.

    $39,519 spent$19,290 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  2. Completed sponsored projects activities supporting topical areas in synthetic biology and engineering biology and that furthered building the engineering biology community. Projects were funded by private and federal funding sources.

    $587,362 spent
    94% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $626,881.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($226k) Expenses 100 ($290k) Net assets -81 ($-64351)2018 Revenue 76 ($172k) Expenses 11 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2019 Revenue 63 ($141k) Expenses 44 ($128k) Net assets 117 ($93k)2020 Revenue 121 ($273k) Expenses 64 ($185k) Net assets 191 ($151k)2021 Revenue 111 ($251k) Expenses 49 ($143k) Net assets 327 ($260k)2022 Revenue 3250 ($7.3M) Expenses 80 ($232k) Net assets 9247 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 63 ($143k) Expenses 2444 ($7.1M) Net assets 464 ($368k)2024 Revenue 293 ($662k) Expenses 268 ($776k) Net assets 319 ($253k)2025 Revenue 432 ($974k) Expenses 310 ($898k) Net assets 415 ($329k)
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Revenue (432)Expenses (310)Net assets (415)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 2021 to 2022, from $262k to $7.4M (+2713%).

$43k
$80k
$93k
$154k
$262k
$7.4M
$373k
$741k
$489k
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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: 2024 21% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$64k
’17
$139k
’18
$14k
’19
$88k
’20
$108k
’21
$7.1M
’22
−$6.9M
’23
−$115k
’24
$76k
’25
6.4
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.

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Listed1466667787
Joined·+0+0+0+0+6+0+2+0
No longer listed·80005011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM’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

ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

95% of ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $350k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

CA
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.

Federal$4.5M
grants $4.4Mcontracts $137k
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Top agencies
  • Department of State$3.0M
  • National Science Foundation$1.1M
  • Department of Commerce$385k

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 ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM: 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 ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM?
ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,350,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,350,000 in grants to ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM.
Who is the largest funder of ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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