Charity profile · Historical source record

The Jackson Laboratory

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Leading the search for tomorrow's cures

The Jackson Laboratory, founded in 1929, is an independent, nonprofit organization focusing on mammalian genetics research to advance human health. Our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health. We have 40 principal investigators leading research groups in six major areas: cancers, computational biology bioinformatics, developmental and reproductive biology, immunology, metabolic diseases, and neurobiology. Along with our research we provide scientific resources, techniques, software and data to scientists around the world. We breed and manage colonies of mice to supply other research institutions and laboratories.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

95.21Overall score
out of 100

94.54Financial score
out of 100

96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$375,965,824

Total expenses · USD$335,594,164

Program expenses

$279,885,532.78 recorded amount

83.4%

Fundraising expenses

$3,355,941.64 recorded amount

1.0%

Administrative expenses

$52,017,095.42 recorded amount

15.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.03 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Edison T. Liu
Recorded compensation: $1,502,989.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.44%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for The Jackson Laboratory
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	96.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	The Jackson Laboratory, founded in 1929, is an independent, nonprofit organization focusing on mammalian genetics research to advance human health. Our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health. We have 40 principal investigators leading research groups in six major areas: cancers, computational biology bioinformatics, developmental and reproductive biology, immunology, metabolic diseases, and neurobiology. Along with our research we provide scientific resources, techniques, software and data to scientists around the world. We breed and manage colonies of mice to supply other research institutions and laboratories.
`ein` EIN	01-0211513
`tot_exp` Total expenses	335594164.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.155
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.03
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.01
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.8340000000000001
`fscore` Financial score	94.54
`leader` Recorded leader	Edison T. Liu
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	1502989.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0044
`motto` Tagline	Leading the search for tomorrow's cures
`name` Charity name	The Jackson Laboratory
`tot_rev` Total revenue	375965824.0
`score` Overall score	95.21
`state` State code	ME
`subcategory` Subcategory	Medical Research
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	279885532.776
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	3355941.64
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	52017095.42

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.