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Biotech Partners

Biotech Partners (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,953 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($225,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$698k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$786k
Net assets
$689k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Biotech Partners does

Program

  1. Since the programs inception in 1992, over 5,048 students have participated in BPs Biotech Academy; approximately 1,848 placed into paid internships and co- ops who have collectively earned over $4.12 million to date. Biotech Partners operates its program in Berkeley High School (1993), Oakland Unified School District (1996); Oakland Technical High School (2008), Antioch High School (2015), South San Francisco High (2015-17), and San Marin High (2016) and partners with the Peralta Community College District. Biotech Partners two-year high school program component includes a hands-on lab-focused curriculum and a bioscience industry internship between the 11th and 12th grade years. Over 550 students have continued their bioscience education in Biotech Partners community college Bioscience Career Institute (BCI) program.

    $773,468 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $773,468.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($417k) Expenses 100 ($689k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2018 Revenue 179 ($745k) Expenses 105 ($723k) Net assets 141 ($57k)2019 Revenue 190 ($791k) Expenses 101 ($695k) Net assets 381 ($153k)2020 Revenue 272 ($1.1M) Expenses 150 ($1.0M) Net assets 637 ($255k)2021 Revenue 237 ($988k) Expenses 157 ($1.1M) Net assets 402 ($161k)2022 Revenue 316 ($1.3M) Expenses 144 ($993k) Net assets 1208 ($484k)2023 Revenue 398 ($1.7M) Expenses 160 ($1.1M) Net assets 2595 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 167 ($698k) Expenses 152 ($1.0M) Net assets 1718 ($689k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (152)Net assets (1718)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $260k to $1.2M (+378%).

$201k
$260k
$1.2M
$923k
$409k
$601k
$1.3M
$992k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 12% · 2019 39% · 2020 69% · 2021 63% · 2022 30% · 2023 15% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

103% of Biotech Partners’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$272k
’17
$22k
’18
$96k
’19
$101k
’20
−$94k
’21
$323k
’22
$556k
’23
−$351k
’24
0.7
months of
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.

Chief executive

Lynda Gayden

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1111119891111
Joined·+6+0+1+5+1+3+2
No longer listed·6036012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $22k → $161k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Biotech Partners’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

Biotech Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Biotech Partners.

29%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 51% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

14% of Biotech Partners's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

52% of Biotech Partners's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Biotech Partners has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−50% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Biotech Partners receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.

Federal$1.4M
grants $1.4Mcontracts $0
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22
Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$1.4M

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 Biotech Partners

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 25%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Biotech Partners?
Biotech Partners (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,953 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($225,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Biotech Partners have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $785,953 in grants to Biotech Partners, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Biotech Partners?
LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Biotech Partners 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.

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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 12 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