Virginia · Nonprofit
PROJECT BIOME INC
PROJECT BIOME INC (Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,339,378 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($750,000). 14 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
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $487k
What Project Biome Inc does
Mission
Project biome exists to unite, inspire, and empower the movement towards regenerative food systems as a means to restore human and planetary health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
10 trees: the 10 trees project launched on june 1, 2023, sponsored by the organization. It is a regenerative platform for global collaboration initiated by dr. Zach bush, md. Their vision is "a humanity in which every endeavor directly or indirectly increases healthy soil, water, air socio-economics and biodiversity of all life". Ratanang colab: a regenerative agriculture initiative in mpumalanga, south africa. In partnership with the organization, it will be the first agrihub in the region. Geasphere: a non-profit that works to regenerate the landscape around bushbuck ridge and sabi in mpumalanga, south africa. Biome constellation: a platform for radical collaboration between practitioners working in social and ecological rewilding, regenerating and reconnecting. It provides a space through which members can contribute their skills, knowledge and resources to catalyze transformative change. Comprises changemakers who ascribe to the organization's vision and values, and who want to engage in collaborative and collective action. Biome solutioning center: a virtual innovative hub that coordinates the collaborative contribution of skills, resources, and stakeholders to catalyze…
$1,552,664 spentof which $103,994 as grants$10,685 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,552,664.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $689k (−53%).
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.
99% of PROJECT BIOME INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Stella Horgan
Executive director
Board chair
Zach Bush
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $459k → $696k.
15 of 34 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 PROJECT BIOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
PROJECT BIOME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 PROJECT BIOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 45% · 2022 53% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of PROJECT BIOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
51% of PROJECT BIOME INC'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
PROJECT BIOME INC has grown faster than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT BIOME 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT BIOME 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 PROJECT BIOME INC?
- PROJECT BIOME INC (Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,339,378 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($750,000). 14 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 PROJECT BIOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,339,378 in grants to PROJECT BIOME INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT BIOME INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT BIOME INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 34 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