California · Nonprofit
SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION
SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31
- Net assets
- $14k
What Sciencebees Association does
Mission
The Sciencebees Association is a not-for-profit educational organization whose purpose is to increase the awareness of, exposure to, and participation in inquiry-based science learning. Sciencebee promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research by elementary, middle, and high school students and partners with teachers to integrate student scientific research into science education, both formal and informal. Sciencebee advances the studies of STEM in grades 1-12. Science Fair is an invaluable experience for our students. Some of the goals that we hope our students achieve are:1. to stimulate interest, curiosity, and desire to explore the mysteries of the world. 2. to learn, understand, and apply the scientific method. 3. to help develop skills of interpretation and analysis of data. 4. to learn how to complete long range projects. 5. to acquire skills of research using a variety of resources such as the Internet, interviews, books, magazines, etc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Held a series of wechat seminars, including the big reveal of the new coronavirus on 9/18/2022; IT professional and Career prospects on 4/9/23 How scientific research, competitions, and internships can be powerful boosters in college applicatio on3/12/23
$8,000 spent27% of program spendingZoom meeting on various topics, such as: How to apply for best colleges for art student on 6/11/2023; Common application personal statement on 6/3/2023; and many others
$10,000 spent33% of program spendingHosted several high school student competitions, including British Biology Olympiad 2023 Competition; Biology Challenge 2023 Competition; Intermediate Biology Olympiad 2023 Competition
$12,000 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $99k to $30k (−69%).
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.
93% of SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Wei Hu
Manage Director & CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 46% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION: 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 SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION?
- SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31 in grants to SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCEBEES ASSOCIATION 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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