Association of Medical and Graduate Departments of Biochemistry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237417404
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- South Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3056615581
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,765
- Expenses
- $63,396
- Assets
- $191,156
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Sundberg (President)
People named in this filing
- Eric Sundberg (President)
- Liskin Swint-Kruse (Treasurer)
- Rong Li (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Association of Medical and Graduate Departments of Biochemistry (AMGDB), founded in 1969, represents Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at graduate and medical schools in North America, including the 50 United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. The AMGDB is concerned with issues related to fundamental and biomedical science, health research, science policy and education. We work with and support the teaching mission of the Association of Biochemistry Educators. Through its web site, AMGDB serves as a conduit between departments and graduate student and postdoctoral applicants. It also notifies young scientists about openings for faculty positions in biochemistry departments throughout North America. It maintains a examination question bank, discussion board and listing of biochemistry departments and chairs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conference dedicated to academic leaders in biochemistry. We welcome conference participation by the leadership of biochemistry units within undergraduate institutions, schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, and public health. The AMGDB annual meeting is a premier conference for Biochemistry Chairs focused on advancing cutting-edge science, education, and professional development. It includes diverse speakers and discussion leaders prioritizing time for discussions. The AMGDB new chair on-boarding session will focus on topics such as finances and budgeting, promotion and tenure, faculty development, and HR-related items (recruitment, retention, and annual reviews)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.5%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.02; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.5% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.