California · Nonprofit
CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,408 to it, the largest being doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($28,240). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Chemists Without Borders does
Mission
Chemists Without Borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. Our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and delivering high-impact projects and programs that address the needs of and empower the communities we support connection - building and nurturing partnerships and collaborations and being a conduit for connecting with institutions, communities, ngos, chemists, and other scientists. Education - expanding the human capacity and capabilities through developing and conducting educational programs, mentoring, and advancing science knowledge among communities. Innovation - conceiving and implementing solutions, in concert with all stakeholders, by incorporating natural and scientific principles to maximize impact and optimize available resources access to clean water and quality education are fundamental humanitarian challenges. These challenges disproportion
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In partnership with the himalayan tribal community development in nepal (htcdn), cwb has been engaged in developing programming in the following areas (all programs are in-development stage. The numbers cited are at full program maturation): a. Adult education and lifelong learning (50-100 people annually) o development of adult literacy and foundational learning programs o practical science education relevant to daily life o community learning workshops focused on health, sanitation, nutrition, and environmental awareness o strengthening local capacity for peer-to-peer teaching and learning b. Science-based quality-of-life interventions (4-5 schools impacting hundreds of students annually) o community education on safe water practices and hygiene o environmental health awareness and sustainability education o practical, locally adaptable approaches to improving household and community well-being c. Capacity building and knowledge exchange (5 villages and associated communities annually) o training and support for local educators and facilitators o exchange of knowledge, ideas, and culturally appropriate educational resources o collaborative development of community-centered…
$2,507 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,507.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $15k to $10k (−34%).
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.
100% of CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Achal Garg
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $46.
1 of 2 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 CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS’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
CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
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
23% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: 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 CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS?
- CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,408 to it, the largest being doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($28,240). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,408 in grants to CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS?
- doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $28,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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