Colorado · Nonprofit
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,908,844 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,615,068). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology does
Mission
Keystone symposia will serve as a catalyst for the advancement of biomedical life sciences by connecting scientists within and across disciplines at conferences and workshops held at venues that create an environment conducive to information exchange.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Keystone symposia sponsors an annual series of conferences for the scientific community, which are international in scope and focus on new and emerging areas of molecular and cellular biology as they apply to basic biology, human medicine, and agriculture. In fy2025, the keystone symposia convened 52 in-person conferences across the globe. For each meeting, we additionally offered recorded on-demand content of the talks. In addition, keystone symposia provided 314 scholarships to early career scientists to attend meetings and present their work. Several of the meetings also incorporated a career roundtable. These workshops provided career advice and insight from diverse(cont'd on sch. O)career paths for trainees aspiring to follow in their footsteps. Keystone symposia provided 14 postdocs and early-career scientists from disadvantage backgrounds an opportunity to participate in the fellows program. The program aims to enhance confidence, leadership skills, networking opportunities and visibility of fellows within the biological and biomedical research community.
$8,556,266 spentof which $569,089 as grants$8,607,692 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,556,266.
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 $21M to $19M (−11%).
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 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Walter H Moos Phd
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $112k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY’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
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 78 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.7M
- National Science Foundation$24k
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 KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY: 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 KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY?
- KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,908,844 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,615,068). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,908,844 in grants to KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,615,068 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 13 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