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California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. Based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, and natural history museum as well as innovative programs in scientific…

$976k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
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Itemized, FY2025
$93k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,207
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$782M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
William Paterson University of New Jersey$60,2071n/a
Omaha Zoological Society$25,0001n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$7,5031n/a

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About California Academy of Sciences

How much does California Academy of Sciences give?
California Academy of Sciences reported 3 itemized grants totaling $92,710, out of $976,290 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does California Academy of Sciences fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (73%), Animals (27%).
Who are California Academy of Sciences's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: William Paterson University of New Jersey ($60k), Omaha Zoological Society ($25k), Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($8k).
Where is California Academy of Sciences based?
California Academy of Sciences is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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