- Revenue 2024
- $40,075
- Expenses 2024
- $56,525
Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- U99
- Classification
- 8000
- Street
- 4240 DUNCAN AVE STE 200
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
2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us
This address is a suite or unit (STE 200). 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.
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CORTEX
EIN 30-0082817
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VENTURE CAFE FOUNDATION
EIN 81-0818111
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide educational and scientific development in the medical and engineering fields for students and trainees.
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Innovation education for students and trainees: Over the last year, we expanded our reach, bringing together over 300 students onto interdisciplinary teams. Through their individual projects in Sling Health, these students underwent 30 weeks of extracurricular experience in innovation and entrepreneurship related to biomedical technologies. This educational platform supported Sling Health missions and the missions of our partner universities to train students from cities including: St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, New Orleans, Lubbock, College Station and Los Angeles, and newly added Miami, and Denver.
Expenses $12,728
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Development of new biomedical technologies: We supported over 40 new teams creating solutions to vetted clinical problems, and continued support for several teams that participated in previous years. The total number of teams and new biomedical technologies that have gone through our program is over 250 since our founding in 2013. As of the end of 2023, over 30 have continued as new companies. At least 17 have gone on to raise outside capital to date by 2023, totaling in excess of $150MM. Furthermore, we maintain and upgrade yearly a clinical problem database (currently with ~250 clinical needs) that identify current gaps within the healthcare system. This database serves as a starting platform for the future development of biomedical solutions.
Expenses $24,279 · Grants $14,144
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3) Increased exposure to biomedical entreprenuership: We increased exposure to medical entrepreneurship through multiple avenues. We conducted an augmented reality-enabled Demo Day, attracting over 200 participants. Here, our entrepreneurial teams showcased their prototypes to a broader audience, marking a significant milestone in their journey. We also featured in a prominent medical journal about our extended 6-week virtual innovation bootcamp, organized in mid-2022. This program involved over 100 participants from 30 global universities, creating 20 teams focused on solving emerging healthcare problems, reflecting our ever-expanding international footprint.
Expenses $6,372
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Minju Lee
Chairman of the Board, Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Caroline Quindlen
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michael Tang
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Emily Day
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Dara Khosravi
Director and President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 12
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Joshua Robert
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Gabriel Peterman
Managing Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $40,075
- Expenses
- $56,525
- Contributions
- $40,000
- Grants paid
- $14,144
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2023
- Revenue
- $80,585
- Expenses
- $78,566
- Contributions
- $80,500
- Grants paid
- $30,926
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2022
- Revenue
- $77,705
- Expenses
- $83,748
- Contributions
- $70,000
- Grants paid
- $31,300
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
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $16
- Expenses
- $47,501
- Assets (EOY)
- $111,279
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2015 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $121,461
- Expenses
- $52,125
- Assets (EOY)
- $80,306
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 2014
- Tax period
- 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
- Principal officer
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Stephen Linderman
- Mailing address
- 4240 Duncan Avenue Suite 200SAINT LOUIS MO 63110
- Website
- http://ideas.wustl.edu/#
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
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$80,000
2022 SPONSORSHIP
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.