California · Nonprofit
SOLVING FOR SCIENCE
SOLVING FOR SCIENCE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($855,000). 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
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $861k
- Net assets
- $145k
What Solving for Science does
Mission
Our mission is to create a world where science is genuinely collaborative, inclusive, and socially engaged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the year, the organization undertook two significant new program services not previously listed. Engage is a series of two-day immersive science communication workshops for senior faculty and principal investigators, designed to build skills in public engagement, civic science, and accessible communication, and to prepare scientific leaders to effectively engage the public at a critical time for science. Propel is a post-baccalaureate research program that provides aspiring scientists from all backgrounds with hands-on research experience, mentorship, and professional development to support successful applications to medical school or phd programs and to strengthen the future scientific talent pipeline.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Engage is a series of 2-day immersive science communications workshops for senior faculty and principal investigators designed to help them build skills in public engagement, civic science, and accessible communication, preparing them to lead at a critical time for science.
$134,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants$17,000 earned by the program58% of program spendingDiscovery curator is a scientist-led experiment to reimagine peer review as a transparent, community-owned, constructive process. By focusing on peer improvement rather than gatekeeping, it empowers scientists to take back critical knowledge-sharing from publishers.
$80,000 spent34% of program spendingPropel is a post-baccalaureate research program that provides aspiring scientists from all backgrounds with the research experience, mentorship, and professional development needed to succeed in applying for medical school or phd programs, ensuring the talent pipeline continues to flow.
$1,812 spent1% of program spendingOther programs
$16,463 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $232,275.
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 2022 to 2023, from $90k to $174k (+94%).
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.
96% of SOLVING FOR SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% 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.
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
Matthew F Krummel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 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 SOLVING FOR SCIENCE’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
SOLVING FOR SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 SOLVING FOR SCIENCE.
“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
100% of SOLVING FOR SCIENCE'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. $861k 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.
Against its field
SOLVING FOR SCIENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOLVING FOR SCIENCE
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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOLVING FOR SCIENCE: 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 SOLVING FOR SCIENCE?
- SOLVING FOR SCIENCE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($855,000). 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 SOLVING FOR SCIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $861,000 in grants to SOLVING FOR SCIENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLVING FOR SCIENCE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $855,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLVING FOR SCIENCE 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.
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 2 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