Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc
Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,583 to it, the largest being RICHARD LOUNSBERY FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $45k
What Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc does
Mission
Promote science education at the high school level and to provide a forum for students to have their research work reviewed and published in a high quality online open-access journal.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To publish the scientific research from middle and high school students. This involves an extensive mentoring program and the cost of maintaining our website (the primary site for publishing articles.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $100k to $19k (−81%).
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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Scott Soldat-Valenzuela
Executive Director
Board chair
Lauren Sutton
Director, Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $130k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Journal of Emerging Investigators 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 Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc?
- Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,583 to it, the largest being RICHARD LOUNSBERY FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $205,583 in grants to Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc?
- RICHARD LOUNSBERY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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