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SEEDING LABS A NON PROFIT CORPORATION

EIN 10-8267613 BOSTON, MA

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Revenue 2023
$2,853,182
Expenses 2023
$3,032,062

Program services were 59.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U052
Classification
8210
Street
25 DORCHESTER AVE UNIT 51914

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE MISSION OF SEEDING LABS IS TO PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. OUR PROGRAMS FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLY STRENGTHENING SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER POSITIONED TO TRAIN THE SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE AND CONTRIBUTE EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADVANCE DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EMPOWER EVERY SCIENTIST TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD.

  • SEEDING LABS LEVERAGES ITS NETWORK OF 200+ DONORS (INCLUDING EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS, LIFE SCIENCE COMPANIES, UNIVERSITIES, AND INDIVIDUALS) TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE ACCESS TO LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR SCIENTISTS AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. IN 2023, SEEDING LABS SUPPORTED 6 INSTITUTIONS ACROSS 5 COUNTRIES WITH MORE THAN 14 TONS OF LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES. SINCE 2008, 111 INSTITUTIONS ACROSS 40 COUNTRIES HAVE RECEIVED EQUIPMENT FROM SEEDING LABS WITH A FAIR MARKET VALUE OF $13.7M, BENEFITTING APPROXIMATELY 3,000 RESEARCHERS AND 230,000 STUDENTS.

    Expenses $1,807,336 · Grants $960,362 · Revenue $658,955

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Vishal Patel PhD

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chad Jackson

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Beata Dragovics

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aravinda Souza

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Safraz Ishmael

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alan Lee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Harvey Lodish PhD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessica Toepfer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jean-Charles Wirth

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melissa Wu

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $108,089
    From this org
    $107,247
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $842
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Qualter

    ACTING CFO

    Total calculated
    $111,680
    From this org
    $108,621
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,059
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,853,182
    Expenses
    $3,032,062
    Contributions
    $2,191,143
    Grants paid
    $960,362
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,710,275
    Expenses
    $2,615,207
    Contributions
    $4,987,699
    Grants paid
    $1,039,577

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,907,900
    Expenses
    $2,698,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,266,031

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,404,970
    Expenses
    $1,967,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,055,496

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,655,780
    Expenses
    $2,817,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,544,551

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,105,655
    Expenses
    $3,158,424
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,733,119

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,629,648
    Expenses
    $3,413,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,765,613

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,904,580
    Expenses
    $3,186,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,847,215

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,516,845
    Expenses
    $1,969,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,731,589

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,589,545
    Expenses
    $881,766
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,175,582

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $753,398
    Expenses
    $1,081,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $489,865

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $344,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $739,609

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.