California · Nonprofit
Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls
Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $952,503 to it, the largest being GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($305,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $953k
- Net assets
- $879k
What Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls does
Mission
To remove systemic barriers to all girls participation in STEM starting in transitional kindergarten, engage them through hands-on learning, increase their positive attitudes toward STEM, and equip them with 21st century skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the 2024 - 2025 school year:- 830 girls participated in 27-week afterschool STEM programs at 23 schools- 5 In-Person Family STEAM Events: serving over 750 participants- 5 Summer Engineering Camps serving an estimated 394 girls and boys; 2 Spring Camps serving 135 students- 4 Female STEM professionals volunteered over 600 hours as in-person teaching assistants over 27 weeks- 50 Female STEM professionals participated in our Role Model program, visiting 1-2 schools each during each of 3 curriculum sessions (2 classes at each school) = 125 volunteer hours- 17 STEM high school students and SAfG graduates volunteered over 288 total hours as in-person assistants in SAfGs Fall, Winter and Spring sessions- 6 Teaching Assistants from Cal State East Bay and UC Berkeley assisted in SAfG Afterschool, Spring Break, Summer and Library programs
$817,393 spent$278,944 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $817,393.
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 2022 to 2023, from $297k to $594k (+100%).
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: 2018 3% · 2021 12% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Ana Valencia
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $19k → $189k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls’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
Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
71% 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 Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 91% · 2019 90% · 2020 88% · 2021 46% · 2022 44% · 2023 21% — 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
50% of Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
65% of Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $439k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls: 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 Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls?
- Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $952,503 to it, the largest being GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($305,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $952,503 in grants to Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls?
- GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls 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 22 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