Public Charity

IGEM FOUNDATION INC

IGEM FOUNDATION INC, of CAMBRIDGE, MA, is a Public Charity tracked in Imperigo's IRS 990 database. The 2024 filing shows $6.5M in revenue, $6.3M in expenses, $1.7M in total assets. 8 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $1.9M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 452313408 CAMBRIDGE, MA Professional Societies & Associations NTEE: U03 Latest filing: 2024

Organization Summary

Grant Records 8

Filing History 2019–2024

Funding Total $1.9M

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Financial Snapshot · 2024

Total Revenue $6.5M

Total Expenses $6.3M

Total Assets $1.7M

Total Revenue$6.5M

Total Expenses$6.3M

Total Assets$1.7M

Grant Records8

Funding Total$1.9M

Filing Years2019–2024

Mission

THE INTERNATIONAL GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MACHINE (IGEM) FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO EDUCATION AND COMPETITION, ADVANCEMENT OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION. THE IGEM FOUNDATION FOSTERS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION THROUGH ORGANIZING AND OPERATING THE IGEM COMPETITION, THE PREMIER STUDENT SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY COMPETITION. IT ALSO FOSTERS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION BY ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING THE REGISTRY OF STANDARD BIOLOGICAL PARTS, A COMMUNITY COLLECTION OF BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS. THE ORGANIZATION PROMOTES THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION BY DEVELOPING AN OPEN COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS IN SCHOOLS, LABORATORIES, RESEARCH INSTITUTES, AND INDUSTRY. THE IGEM COMMUNITY HAS A LONG HISTORY OF INVOLVING STUDENTS AND THE PUBLIC IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW FIELD OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY.

Where $100 goes at Igem Foundation Inc

How Igem Foundation Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$79 Programs the work itself

$21 Management running the organization

$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $79 for programs

$79

Igem Foundation fosters scientific research and education through the organization and operation of the igem competition, the world's premier student synthetic biology competition

All program spending · Reported in the filing: 400 teams; 10,000 participants; 4,300 students

Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.