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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $320 to it, the largest being SEMPRA FOUNDATION ($320). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $320
- Net assets
- $29k
What University of Southern California Science Outreach does
Mission
At the center of SCience Outreach's mission is the desire to provide quality science education at no cost to our local community. We provide experiment materials, equipment, lesson plans, and even clean-up materials to every student. We hope to continue providing these unique lessons to students who otherwise would have no exposure to formal science education until the fourth grade. One of the most important aspects of SCience Outreach is the irreplaceable relationship between the college student volunteers, whom we call SCouts and our junior scientists. Each SCout will work more closely with the same three to four students to demonstrate experiments, answer questions, and be a close mentor to these elementary school students. This close relationship empowers confidence in the junior scientists' learning abilities and a potential interest in STEM in the future. Moreover, our junior scientists trust SCouts to ask questions about science and about their experience within the field.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Science Outreach was founded in 2011 and continues to fulfill the goal of providing quality science education at no cost to our partnering schools. We just finished our expansion into first grade in 2020. This allowed us to create unique experiments for all different grade levels this year. Prior to this, first and second grade classes would share experiments. This expansion allowed for a more meaningful experience for our first grade junior scientists and further strengthened our commitment to educating all three grade levels before they are formally introduced to the science curriculum in the fourth grade. In this past fiscal year alone, we have been able to observe the impact SCience Outreach has on our local community. In our partnering schools in the LAUSD, we have taught and formed relationships with over 400 students. In addition, our end of the year science fair had over 500 attendees. We get feedback from both our junior scientists and our Scouts (college student volunteers). The feedback is overwhelmingly positive and both parties are excited to continue their journey with our organization.
$5,637 spentof which $4,800 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,637.
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 $18k to $24k (+37%).
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.
100% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH’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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH?
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $320 to it, the largest being SEMPRA FOUNDATION ($320). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $320 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH?
- SEMPRA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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