California · Nonprofit
Project Scientist Inc
Project Scientist Inc (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,130,878 to it, the largest being TRANE TECHNOLOGIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,409,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $562k
What Project Scientist Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to expose a diverse population of young girls to a high quality STEM academy that inspires confidence in their pursuit of ling throughout the year
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project Scientists Explorers Club served 2817 under-estimated youth through a joyful, hands-on, flexible, out-of- school STEAM program designed to build confidence, spark curiosity in students. Through engaging STEAM activities and meaningful connections with STEM role models, youth experience a sense of belonging and see themselves as innovative scientists and problem-solvers.
$693,502 spent56% of program spendingProject Scientists Innovation Lab served 256 under-estimated youth through a joyful, hands-on, immersive summer STEAM camp designed to build confidence and spark curiosity in students. From building prototypes to solving real-world problems, each lab fosters collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving. Through field trips and connections with STEM role models, youth experience a sense of belonging and see themselves as innovative scientists and problem solvers.
$467,528 spent38% of program spendingProject Scientists Elevated Institute served 153 educators through a transformative professional development experience designed to equip them with the knowledge, strategies, and confidence to foster spaces of belonging for youth in STEM. Through hands-on learning, deep reflection, and a strong peer community, Elevated Institute empowers educators to expand access, value varied experiences and perspectives, and foster student belonging in every STEM classroom.
$85,000 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,246,030.
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 2021 to 2022, from $676k to $1.0M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Project Scientist Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Patrice S Johnson
CEO
Board chair
Bridgette McAdoo
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $88k → $954k.
14 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Scientist Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 Scientist Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
58% 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 Scientist Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 36% · 2019 25% · 2020 41% · 2021 43% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of Project Scientist Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
Project Scientist Inc draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Scientist Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Project Scientist 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Project Scientist 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 Scientist Inc?
- Project Scientist Inc (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,130,878 to it, the largest being TRANE TECHNOLOGIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,409,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project Scientist Inc have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $6,130,878 in grants to Project Scientist Inc, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Scientist Inc?
- TRANE TECHNOLOGIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,409,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Scientist Inc 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 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing