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BIODESIGN CHALLENGE INC

EIN 83-2384405 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2025
$296,222
Expenses 2025
$345,895

Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
250 HUDSON ST STE 702

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 702). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

BIODESIGN CHALLENGE IS AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT INTRODUCES STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS TO EMERGING BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND ASKS THEM TO EXPLORE, THROUGH THE LENSES OF ART AND DESIGN, HOW THESE TECHNOLOGIES MIGHT BE USED TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE FUTURE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO BRING ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND BIOLOGISTS TOGETHER TO PRODUCE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

  • THROUGHOUT THE SPRING, OUR ORGANIZERS WORK WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEACHERS TO DESIGN CURRICULA; PARTNER PARTICIPATING CLASSROOMS WITH EXPERT MENTORS IN STEM, ART, AND DESIGN; AND SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH RESOURCES AND MENTORSHIP AS THEY DEVELOP THEIR PROJECTS. EACH JUNE, PARTICIPANTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC GATHER AT OUR ANNUAL SUMMIT WHERE STUDENTS SHOWCASE THEIR RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES IN FRONT OF AN ESTEEMED JURY MADE UP OF INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA PROFESSIONALS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. ALUMNI OF THE PROGRAM ENTER THE WORKFORCE WITH A DEEP ETHOS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION, ENVIRONMENTALLY-FOCUSED DESIGN, AND EQUITY-CENTERED SYSTEMS DESIGN. TEAMS PROTOTYPE NEW IDEAS IN MEDICINE, TEXTILES, BEAUTY, FOOD, MANUFACTURING, AND MORE. BIODESIGN CHALLENGE BRIDGES ART, DESIGN, AND BIOTECH TO HELP DEVELOP THE FIRST GENERATION OF PROFESSIONALS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES, ANTICIPATE PROMISES AND PITFALLS, AND ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN DIALOGUE ABOUT THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS OF EMERGING BIOTECH.AS PART OF OUR SUPPORT FOR PARTICIPANTS, WE CONNECT TEAMS WITH OPPORTUNITIES WITH MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, INVESTORS, AND ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS. THROUGH THESE CONNECTIONS PROJECTS HAVE BOTH EVOLVED INTO STARTUP COMPANIES AND EXHIBITS AT VENUES AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, DUTCH DESIGN WEEK, NYCXDESIGN, MIT MEDIA LAB, TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION, RISD BIODESIGN EXHIBITION, FIT MUSEUM, THE GREGG, AMONG OTHERS. TEAMS HAVE ALSO GONE ON TO WIN PRESTIGIOUS PRIZES LIKE THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHASING GENIUS AWARD AND INTERNATIONAL BIOART AND DESIGN AWARD.

    Expenses $277,726 · Revenue $296,222

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Orkan Telhan

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alison Irvine

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Grushkin

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Rubbery

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $95,968
    From this org
    $95,968
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $296,222
    Expenses
    $345,895
    Contributions
    $188,230
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $356,602
    Expenses
    $440,206
    Contributions
    $263,811
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $478,564
    Expenses
    $414,005
    Contributions
    $401,618
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $493,641
    Expenses
    $432,399
    Contributions
    $400,224
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $527,191
    Expenses
    $439,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $455,883
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,105
    Expenses
    $340,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,860
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $468,904
    Expenses
    $281,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,380
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,283
    Expenses
    $50,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $250,313

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Daniel Grushkin
Mailing address
765 UNION ST NO 3NEW YORK NY 11215
Website
BIODESIGNCHALLENGE.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.