Florida · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC
FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,779,997 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($3,779,997). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution Inc does
Mission
The foundation provides an innovative environment to host the scientific and technological research of a small group of selected molecular and life scientists to meet opportunities in commerce and medicine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization has conducted a number of research projects.1r01ai135146-01a1 diagnostics and surveillance for low-resource environments. The aims of this project are to explore and develop faster and less expensive diagnostics tools and to increase the robustness of multiplex pathogen detection products.1r61ca291117-01 evolved molecules that destroy cancer relevant proteins. The technology to be developed here will create a new capability, reagents that not only bind a target protein, but also cleave it, to be available from suppliers in weeks (not months) at 10-100 fold lower cost than antibodies.
$2,492,480 spentof which $32,329 as grants$97 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,492,480.
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 2019 to 2020, from $543k to $2.0M (+270%).
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 38% · 2018 38% · 2019 95% · 2020 50% · 2021 64% · 2022 91% · 2023 74% · 2024 61% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Steven Benner
Board chair & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2.1M → $1.7M.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC’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
FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
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
FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$12.0M
- National Science Foundation$3.8M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$761k
- Department of Defense$262k
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 FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nucleic Acids Licensingllc · corp_trust
- Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC: 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 FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,779,997 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($3,779,997). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,779,997 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC?
- JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,779,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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