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BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC

BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being Brooks Family Foundation ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$6k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$10k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Bioscience Resource Project Inc does

Mission

Provides news, commentary and information for the biosciences including agriculture and agroecology, biotechnology, ecology, plant biology, genetics, health, and food science. The organization produces three informational websites: https://bioscienceresource.org/ and https://www.independentsciencenews.org/ and https://www.poisonpapers.org/. The bioscience resource project scientists present their work at professional and public seminars, conferences, workshops and meetings. Project publications are given away free at these events. Project scientists also publish scientific reviews in the academic literature and collaborate with other not-for-profit organizations on educational projects. The three websites and the public and professional outreach, as well as occasional educational events, are provided free to the public. In this way the bioscience resource project fulfills its mission "to provide the highest quality scientific information and analysis to enable a healthy food system and

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The organization maintains three websites, all of which provide free access to any and all individuals. The bioscience resource project (bsr)website makes important public interest science research available to the public. The resource pages are organized according to topic and give short summaries of and references and links to important scientific papers. They also provide links to other organizations and websites with related content and missions that support the organization's public interest exempt purpose. The website also provides links to copies of the scientific reviews published by bioscience resource project scientists, and access to two sets of document troves whose digitization was funded and organized by the bioscience resource project: the poison papers (2017, see description below) and the sanjour files (2018), the work files of epa whistleblower, william sanjour. The website also links to selected video and radio interviews given by project scientists. Total bsr website pageviews: 27,045 in 2021. The independent science news (isn) website provides original news, commentary, analysis, and book reviews, as well as links to related news from around the internet.…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($27k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2019 Revenue 16 ($4k) Expenses 75 ($9k) Net assets 83 ($23k)2020 Revenue 11 ($3k) Expenses 110 ($13k) Net assets 46 ($13k)2021 Revenue 22 ($6k) Expenses 70 ($8k) Net assets 37 ($10k)
2018201920202021
Revenue (22)Expenses (70)Net assets (37)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $23k to $13k (−45%).

$27k
$23k
$13k
$10k
2018201920202021
Total assets

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$10k
’20
−$2k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC’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.

Where its funders are

BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC's revenue fell 78% between 2018 and 2021.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−39% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,681 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC: 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 BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC?
BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being Brooks Family Foundation ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC.
Who is the largest funder of BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC?
Brooks Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIOSCIENCE RESOURCE PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 1 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