California · Nonprofit
ANNUAL REVIEWS
ANNUAL REVIEWS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,706,727 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($5,200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $-793595
What Annual Reviews does
Mission
The mission of Annual Reviews is dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Programs include the editing, production, sales, promotion and distribution of current and future volumes of scientific review articles. The primary purpose is to stimulate and encourage the advancement and development of scientific scholarly disciplines and to foster research therein.
$13,461,407 spentof which $17,938 as grants$15,534,177 earned by the program79% of program spendingPublication of a free digital magazine with the goal of presenting scientific knowledge in a compelling and accessible fashion. All content is free to read, reuse and be presented as standalone materials to promote widespread sharing via social media. This program is currently funded by the gordon and betty moore foundation.
$2,263,845 spentof which $100 as grants$261 earned by the program13% of program spendingHosting an annual conference of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in charleston, sc, in november, to discuss issues of importance to libraries and scholarly publishers.
$1,302,369 spent$1,438,287 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,027,621.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $6.6M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
1% of ANNUAL REVIEWS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $6k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ANNUAL REVIEWS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANNUAL REVIEWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 57% · 2019 73% · 2020 59% · 2021 86% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
78% of ANNUAL REVIEWS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ANNUAL REVIEWS's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ANNUAL REVIEWS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $745k on record — $744k federal, $286 state.
- Department of Agriculture$629k
- Department of Energy$108k
- Department of the Treasury$8k
- Library Resources-Textbooks$286
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ANNUAL REVIEWS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Annual Reviews Investment Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANNUAL REVIEWS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANNUAL REVIEWS?
- ANNUAL REVIEWS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,706,727 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($5,200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANNUAL REVIEWS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $6,706,727 in grants to ANNUAL REVIEWS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANNUAL REVIEWS?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANNUAL REVIEWS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing