Alabama · Nonprofit
HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY (Alabama) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,367,108 to it, the largest being HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ($55,652,859). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $69M
- Net assets
- $179M
What Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology does
Mission
The primary mission of the institute will be to use the increasingly powerful research tools being developed in the biotechnology area to better understand the causes of certain diseases and to apply the findings of such research to help develop new and more effective treatments for such diseases. The institute's charitable mission contemplates numerous other activities all of which are intended to help further biotech research in alabama.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Activities, programs, and collaborations for the institute to accomplish its charitable objective of serving as a catalyst for biotechnology research and developement.
$28,625,288 spent65% of program spendingActivities, programs and collaborations for the institute to accomplish its charitable objective of providing a variety of educational outreach programs.
$3,211,133 spent7% of program spendingActivities, programs and collaborations for the institute to accomplish its charitable objective of developing, providing and advancing genomic medicine programs.
$1,006,218 spent2% of program spendingActivities, programs and collaborations for the institue to accomplish its charitable objective of creating economic growth in biotechnology related fields
$10,987,073 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,829,712.
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 $124M to $194M (+57%).
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 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 14% · 2020 79% · 2021 54% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Brian Pollock
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $6.7M → $9.8M.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $654k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Power Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY raised.
From the IRS filings of HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. 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
HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 96% · 2019 46% · 2020 63% · 2021 80% · 2022 89% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
28% of HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.
Against its field
HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $121.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$97.2M
- National Science Foundation$18.5M
- Department of Agriculture$4.5M
- Department of Commerce$566k
- Department of Defense$147k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$100k
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 HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Hudsonalpha Clinical Services Lab · disregarded
- Smith Family Clinic for Geomic · disregarded
- Hudsonalpha Health Alliance LLC · disregarded
- Testing for America LLC · disregarded
- Hudsonalpha Institute Accelerator · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY?
- HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY (Alabama) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,367,108 to it, the largest being HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ($55,652,859). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $69,367,108 in grants to HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY?
- HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,652,859 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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