Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473068376
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 4438441309
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12
- Expenses
- $28,808
- Assets
- $156,803
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY SCHWARTZ (PRESIDENT / DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- AMY SCHWARTZ (PRESIDENT / DIRECTOR)
- GEORGE CHURCH (DIRECTOR)
- ANDREW HESSEL (TREASURER AND CHAIRMAN)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center of excellence for engineering biology, inc. (the organization") is dedicated to supporting research, education and ethics in the emerging biological field of genome-scale engineering and discovery. The organization's goal is to advance genome-scale engineering to address important global challenges facing humanity in the fields of science and medicine.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization intends to use its funds primarily to: (i) coordinate and support the formation and work of multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research teams to work in a highly integrated fashion on gp-write and related research projects, (ii) encourage timely and detailed consultation among diverse members of the scientific and policy communities, including regarding the ethical, legal and social implications (esli) of genome editing technology, and (iii) develop and provide public education and training in an open source, fully automated platform to support the sharing of knowledge and large-scale pooling of data.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -239,966.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.44; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -56% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -43.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.