Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $106,240,932
- Total expenses
- $105,304,649
- Contributions and grants received
- $6,549,076
- Grants paid
- $41,707,157
- Program service revenue
- $97,751,190
- Investment income
- $1,935,578
- Other revenue
- $5,088
- Total assets, end of year
- $89,478,799
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $53,118,211
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $36,360,588
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $92,644,524
- Management and general expenses
- $12,077,103
- Fundraising expenses
- $583,022
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $92,644,524
Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$6,336,632
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$212,444
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2a · Program service revenue: Service Fees
total $97,490,640 · related or exempt $97,490,640
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2b · Program service revenue: Participant Registrati
total $260,550 · related or exempt $260,550
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3 · Investment income
total $1,815,137 · excluded $1,815,137
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $120,441
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $120,441
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $120,441 · excluded $120,441
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11a · Other revenue: Other Income
total $5,088 · excluded $5,088
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11e · Other revenue, total
$5,088
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $38,896,098 · program services $38,896,098
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $587,060 · program services $587,060
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $2,223,999 · program services $2,223,999
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $1,051,841 · program services $552,503 · management and general $474,376 · fundraising $24,962
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $16,070,112 · program services $8,441,188 · management and general $7,247,555 · fundraising $381,369
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $1,105,241 · program services $580,554 · management and general $498,459 · fundraising $26,228
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $1,397,516 · program services $734,078 · management and general $630,273 · fundraising $33,165
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $1,355,364 · program services $711,936 · management and general $611,263 · fundraising $32,165
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11b · Fees: legal
total $116,954 · program services $4,373 · management and general $112,581
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $108,341 · program services $4,050 · management and general $104,291
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $154,965 · management and general $154,965
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11g · Fees: other
total $38,346,170 · program services $37,656,074 · management and general $647,330 · fundraising $42,766
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $8,380 · program services $8,287 · fundraising $93
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13 · Office expenses
total $54,140 · program services $32,525 · management and general $21,340 · fundraising $275
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14 · Information technology
total $1,573,967 · program services $644,706 · management and general $923,942 · fundraising $5,319
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16 · Occupancy
total $788,527 · program services $671,540 · management and general $111,138 · fundraising $5,849
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17 · Travel
total $553,731 · program services $434,104 · management and general $92,468 · fundraising $27,159
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $315,567 · program services $283,829 · management and general $30,492 · fundraising $1,246
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20 · Interest
total $49,164 · program services $49,164
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $19,974 · management and general $19,974
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23 · Insurance
total $218,520 · program services $72,651 · management and general $145,869
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24a · Other expenses: Service Fees
total $137,885 · program services $45,859 · management and general $92,026
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24b · Other expenses: Recruitment and Trainin
total $90,974 · program services $450 · management and general $90,524
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24c · Other expenses: Bad Debt
total $35,645 · management and general $35,645
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24d · Other expenses: Memberships and Dues
total $24,126 · program services $9,496 · management and general $12,204 · fundraising $2,426
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24e · All other expenses
total $20,388 · management and general $20,388
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $5,778,778 · end of year $3,253,984
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $14,546,889 · end of year $15,363,947
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $7,355,785 · end of year $3,716,935
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $1,152,328 · end of year $1,381,746
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$538,348
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$529,507
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $28,815 · end of year $8,841
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $37,235,531 · end of year $64,595,048
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $278,860 · end of year $336,636
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $945,340 · end of year $821,662
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $15,762,244 · end of year $8,171,773
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $66,000 · end of year $425,075
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $17,515,772 · end of year $44,521,363
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $32,167,557 · end of year $34,994,091
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,810,753 · end of year $1,366,497
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world's biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique opportunities for stem students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world.
Activities or mission (Part I)
VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world's biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique opportunities for stem students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world.
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RADX - VentureWell serves as the network partner and administrator for the National Institutes of Health's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Initiative. Known as RADX, this program aims to expand the range of innovative diagnostic technologies available to support a rapid increase in reliability, speed, and scale of testing for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) across the country.
Expenses $92,644,524 · Grants $41,707,157 · Revenue $97,756,278
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In addition to the 3 grants programs outlined on lines 4a through 4c, NCIIA also: a) awards other types of grants primarily to institutions of higher education in keeping with the organization's mission of promoting invention, innovation and entrepreneurship; b) offers membership to colleges and universities across the U.S., which afford member institutions the opportunity to attend NCIIA-sponsored events at reduced rates, tap into the NCIIA network, and to apply for NCIIA grants; c) conducts workshops and events, including but not limited to an annual conference and workshops designed to teach technology entrepreneurship basics and how to enhance success of commercializing inventions and innovations; and d) invests in select ventures emerging from U.S institutions of higher education.
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I-Corps Program - VentureWell led courses engage participants in moving products out of the lab into the market by talking to potential customers, partners and competitors, and encountering the challenges and uncertainty of creating successful innovations.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Todd Warren
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michael Marasco
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carol Dahl
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gilda Barabino
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Abigail Barrow
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dedric Carter
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Monica Dean
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jos Estabil
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Randy Lewis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Josh Makower
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rodney Priestley
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Youseph Yazdi
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jerry Engel
Emeritus Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Donna Petkanics
Emeritus Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Paul Yock
Emeritus Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Philip Weilerstein
President
- Total calculated
- $456,079
- From this org
- $387,632
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $68,447
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $330,700
- Bonus
- $56,232
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $23,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $45,447
- Filer's total
- $456,079
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Mark Marino
VP, Growth Strategy & Deve
- Total calculated
- $293,368
- From this org
- $267,234
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $26,134
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $233,184
- Bonus
- $33,350
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $26,134
- Filer's total
- $293,368
-
Christopher Desrosiers
VP, Finance & Administrati
- Total calculated
- $288,978
- From this org
- $249,852
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $39,126
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $217,977
- Bonus
- $31,175
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $39,126
- Filer's total
- $288,978
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Ursa Scherer
VP, People & Culture
- Total calculated
- $262,087
- From this org
- $225,213
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $36,874
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $197,700
- Bonus
- $26,813
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $36,874
- Filer's total
- $262,087
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Demetria Gallagher
VP, Higher Education Innovation Ecosystems
- Total calculated
- $265,305
- From this org
- $237,828
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $27,477
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $209,720
- Bonus
- $27,408
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $27,477
- Filer's total
- $265,305
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Christina Tamer
VP, Ventures
- Total calculated
- $251,191
- From this org
- $215,549
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $35,642
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $187,561
- Bonus
- $27,288
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $35,642
- Filer's total
- $251,191
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Rebekah Neal
VP, Commercialization
- Total calculated
- $251,787
- From this org
- $216,288
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $35,499
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $197,700
- Bonus
- $17,888
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $35,499
- Filer's total
- $251,787
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Oneida Vicky Harris
VP, Enterprise & Shared Services
- Total calculated
- $242,098
- From this org
- $213,689
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $28,409
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $212,989
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $700
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $28,409
- Filer's total
- $242,098
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Independent compensation consultant
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part I, Line 7
- The organization provided bonus compensation and stipends to its officers and employees during the year.
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
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2TWELVE90 LLC
$0
WFF Advanced Mobility Venture Studio Operations
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University of Akron
$0
Funding, hands-on workshops, peer networking opportunities, and expert coaching for student teams working to commercialize their high-impact science and technology inventions.
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Funding for new initiatives that will develop into useful resources for the VentureWell community and beyond.
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Aloft Systems Inc
$0
NOAA OCRA
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Funding for new initiatives that will develop into useful resources for the VentureWell community and beyond.
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Ancilia Biosciences Inc
$0
ARPA-H Sprint for Women's Health award
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Funding for new initiatives that will develop into useful resources for the VentureWell community and beyond.
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University of Arkansas Fayetteville
$0
Funding, hands-on workshops, peer networking opportunities, and expert coaching for student teams working to commercialize their high-impact science and technology inventions.
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University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
$0
Grants to help fund and support faculty with innovative ideas to create new or transform existing courses and programs to help students develop novel, STEM-based inventions and gain the necessary entrepreneurial skills needed to bring these ideas to market.
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Aspira Women's Health Inc
$0
ARPA-H Sprint for Women's Health Award
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Disregarded entities
Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.
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Venturewell LLC
To invest in and advise student-created ventures · MA · income $0 · assets $0
Directly controlled by National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 24 April 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.5
- Source object
- 202611149349300341
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