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SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC

SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,119 to it, the largest being US RUSSIA FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW ($130,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$385k
Net assets
$1.7M
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology Inc does

Mission

Our main mission is to run an authentic-learning school focused on natural sciences to advance the practice of authentic learning to provide charitable and humanitarian support and grants to our alumni students and faculty.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We ran the school of molecular and theoretical biology - our main authentic learning school in Biological Science

    $396,266 spent
    59% of program spending
  2. We continued to run an authentic learning program in Data Science that we started previously

    $75,651 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. We continued to run a summer research internship program

    $112,760 spentof which $89,433 as grants
    17% of program spending
  4. We ran a program to offer humanitarian aid to scholars with risk to their personal health and safety as a consequence of the ongoing war in Ukraine

    $80,499 spentof which $73,507 as grants
    12% of program spending
  5. In 2024 we ran a summer program to teach English to our alumni but some of the remaining expenses were left over for 2025

    $11,383 spent
    2% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $676,559.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($117k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets 100 ($273k)2021 Revenue 233 ($271k) Expenses 151 ($146k) Net assets 146 ($398k)2022 Revenue 394 ($459k) Expenses 492 ($476k) Net assets 19 ($52k)2023 Revenue 689 ($804k) Expenses 658 ($636k) Net assets 208 ($568k)2024 Revenue 725 ($845k) Expenses 927 ($896k) Net assets 337 ($921k)2025 Revenue 1201 ($1.4M) Expenses 853 ($824k) Net assets 607 ($1.7M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1201)Expenses (853)Net assets (607)Peer revenue range

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 $921k to $1.7M (+80%).

$273k
$398k
$52k
$568k
$921k
$1.7M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’20
$125k
’21
−$17k
’22
$168k
’23
−$51k
’24
$577k
’25
9.5
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed21222
Joined·····
No longer listed·····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $81k → $55k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC’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

SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

75% 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 SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC.

34%
largest funder
88%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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

SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)64% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC?
SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,119 to it, the largest being US RUSSIA FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW ($130,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $385,119 in grants to SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC?
US RUSSIA FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW is the largest funder on record, with $130,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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