California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($31,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $623k
What Global Alliance of Community Science Workshops does
Mission
GACSW supports the creation and growth of Community Science Workshops in underserved areas-hands-on spaces where youth explore science, sparking curiosity and lifelong learning. Full statement on Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GACSW annually hosts a Nonference which serves as a transformative platform where community science leaders come together to innovate, collaborate, and inspire change.
$11,151 spent1% of program spendingGACSW played a key role in establishing a new Community Science Workshop in Santa Cruz, CA by supporting essential startup activities, including staff onboarding, securing liability coverage, and guiding the management of program contracts and services. This support laid the foundation for a dynamic, hands-on science program that serves underserved youth, creating new opportunities for equitable STEM learning, creative exploration, and long-term community enrichment.
$1,046,140 spent94% of program spendingGACSW supported a new Community Science Workshop in Fresno, working closely with local partners on logistics, staffing, and funding resources. This ongoing collaboration creates a vibrant space where underserved youth can explore science through hands-on learning, encouraging curiosity, problemsolving, and a deeper connection to their communities. Through a unique partnership with the Exploratorium, GACSW brought the innovative concept of Exhiblets to life-scrappy, hands-on science projects designed to be built on a shoestring budget using simple, everyday materials that foster creativity and problem-solving while demonstrating that impactful science education doesnt have to come with a high price tag
$33,266 spent3% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 25,949, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Additional Community Science Workshop support, including in Salinas and New York.
$25,949 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,116,506.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $48k to $487k (+911%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS’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
GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
51% 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 GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS.
“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
51% of GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Organizations like GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS: 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 GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS?
- GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($31,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $61,000 in grants to GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE WORKSHOPS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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