California · Nonprofit
PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION
PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,468 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($606,617). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $616k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Phoenix Bioinformatics Corporation does
Mission
Develop an economically and technologically sustainable business model and platform that provides the resources to allow scientific databases to persist, grow and prosper. Integrate and systematically organize trusted data into knowledge bases and develop tools that enable reuse of and create knowledge from data. Build an interactive, computable learning environment where researchers explore relevant knowledge and build testable hypotheses. Foster interaction and collaboration among scientists to accelerate the progress of science. Promote a deeper understanding of scientific aims, methods, and results within the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Development and maintenance of tair (the arabidopsis information resource), a database of scientific knowledge about the genome and proteome of the reference plant arabidopsis thaliana. New scientific information was extracted from new research articles and associated to the arabidopsis genes as cited in the publications. The tair scientific database served the public with over 2.2 million separate visits to the site, over 13 million individual page views, and an average of 59,000 unique visitors per month.
$717,118 spent$1,671,538 earned by the program50% of program spendingDevelopment of long-term sustainable sources of funding for scientific databases to support their operations and enhance their ability to serve the research community. We supported three external partner databases (repbase, cipres and cyverse) by enabling them to bring in subscription or membership revenue.
$496,013 spent$59,137 earned by the program34% of program spendingDevelopment and maintenance of phylogenes, a database of scientific knowledge about gene function in 40 plant species and 10 non-plant model organisms. The phylogenes scientific database served the public with over 14,000 separate visits to the site, over 22,000 individual page views, and an average of 900 unique visitors per month.
$68,763 spent5% of program spendingDevelopment and maintenance of morphobank, an open-access web application with tools and archives for evolutionary research in phylogenetics, specifically systematics and cladistics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships among species). In 2024, the resource served the public with over 29,000 separate sessions, over 171,000 individual page views, and an average of 1,000 unique visitors per month. The resource contains over 1,600 published projects, with over 300 being published in the last year.
$166,409 spent$34,866 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,448,303.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.3M (+23%).
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: 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Josh Young
Executive director
Board chair
Hilmar Lapp
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $414k → $36.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION’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
PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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: 2017 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
PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION's revenue grew 52% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record — $3.8M federal, $3k state.
- National Science Foundation$3.8M
- Department of Agriculture$20k
- Smithsonian Institution$9k
- Library Resources-Textbooks$3k
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 PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION: 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 PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION?
- PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,468 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($606,617). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $616,468 in grants to PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $606,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX BIOINFORMATICS CORPORATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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