New York · Nonprofit
SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS
SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,000 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $-73177
What Science Literacy Foundation Inc Fka Good Cause Communications does
Mission
The science literacy foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 social-impact organization whose mission is to investigate, create fund scalable initiatives programs, and provide new paths to science literacy.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Open mind: an editorially independent digital magazine that helps readers confront and navigate the current information crisis, particularly as it relates to misinformation, conspiracy theories, and science controversies.
$54,243 spent$33,697 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $54,243.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $20k (−68%).
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 3 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
Brian Cohen
CEO & chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS’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
SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
66% 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 SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS.
“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
66% of SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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 SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
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 SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS: 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 SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS?
- SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,000 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $145,000 in grants to SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION INC FKA GOOD CAUSE COMMUNICATIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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