GINKGO BIOWORKS, INC.

FY 2024

FY 2024 · contracts ≥ $1M

$85M

6 awards · top agency: Department of Health and Human Services · as of Jul 25, 2026

Contracts ≥ $1M, not revenue

$85M

FY 2024 LDA lobbying total

FY 2024 PAC/employee-attributed

Award dollars are federal obligations from contracts of $1M or more (USAspending), not revenue or profit. Lobbying totals come from LDA filings, not contract-level spending. Donations are PAC or employee-attributed records. Overlaps show association, not causation.

Reference note

About the company

Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. is an American biotech company founded in 2008 by five scientists from MIT. via Wikipedia

USAspending contract awards

What they took

These are obligated federal contract dollars from awards of $1 million or more. They are not profit, revenue, a contract ceiling, or the company's full federal total. Data loaded as of Jul 25, 2026.

GINKGO BIOWORKS, INC.

Federal contract obligations (≥$1M) by awarding agency.

Contracts ≥$1M · FY2024

$85M

Trend starts with the loaded fiscal years

Department of Health and Human ServicesDepartment of Defense

GINKGO BIOWORKS, INC.: Federal contract obligations (≥$1M) by awarding agency.
Agency	FY2024
Department of Health and Human Services	$82M
Department of Defense	$2.1M

Department of Health and Human Services$82M

4 loaded awards

Department of Defense$2.1M

2 loaded awards

Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2024-08-26 · NAICS 541380 · PSC R408
$55M
tx|CONT_AWD_75D30124C19895_7523_-NONE-_-NONE-|2024-08-26|54509851.39|0Source
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2024-01-11 · NAICS 541380 · PSC B504
$19M
tx|CONT_AWD_75D30122C14933_7523_-NONE-_-NONE-|2024-01-11|18961560.00|P00007Source
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2024-09-27 · NAICS 541380 · PSC B504
$7.8M
tx|CONT_AWD_75D30122C14933_7523_-NONE-_-NONE-|2024-09-27|7774961.04|P00011Source
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2024-09-06 · NAICS 621511 · PSC Q301
$1.2M
tx|CONT_AWD_75D30124F00001_7523_75D30124D20079_7523|2024-09-06|1236101.64|0Source
Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2024-05-17 · NAICS 541714 · PSC AC12
$1.1M
tx|CONT_AWD_HR001124C0378_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-|2024-05-17|1144841.00|P00001Source
Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2024-09-17 · NAICS 541714 · PSC AC12
$1.0M
tx|CONT_AWD_HR001124C0378_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-|2024-09-17|1000000.00|P00002Source

Lobbying and donations

What they spent

LDA lobbying spend

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No lobbying-company match is attached yet.

PAC/employee-attributed donations

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Top politicians by matched donation total

Who they funded

We found no federal PAC and no employee giving on file for this company. Plenty of private firms never set one up.

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