Maryland · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $746,154 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($350,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $746k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Center for Contemporary Sciences Inc does
Mission
Using science to do good. To unlock the power of science to find solutions that improve the health and wellbeing of humans, animals, and the planet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Advocacy/policy: ccs leads targeted advocacy efforts to shape large-scale national health policies and improve statewide legislative agendas. Through engagement with key stakeholders across industry, academia, medical agencies, and various branches of the u.s. Government, we seek to transform medical research practices, advance sustainability initiatives, and promote pandemic prevention measures. We rely on evidence-based science to modernize public policy and execute advocacy campaigns that benefit society, protect the environment, and promote animal welfare. Sciences/technology: ccs works on multiple fronts to shift the existing paradigm in medical research and other health-impacting areas. The ccs investor summit is a one-of-a-kind business development event that connects innovators, investors, researchers, and venture philanthropists to support modern technologies in the emerging field of human-relevant alternatives to animal experimentation. The ccs innovation circle brings together partners across various sectors to provide a unified voice for the scientific community and policymakers, fostering the discovery, development, refinement, and adoption of the best scientific…
$347,392 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $347,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $401k to $1.1M (+169%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Aysha Akhtar
CEO
Board chair
Damon Isaacs
Board chair/treasurer
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $182k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — 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
57% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
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Organizations like CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC?
- CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $746,154 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($350,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $746,154 in grants to CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC?
- CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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