Donors and funders

California Academy of Sciences

San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-1156258 · Arts, Culture & Humanities · 501(c)(3)

Who funds California Academy of Sciences

229 institutional funders have given since 2022, 195 of them directly, through tax year 2025.

Its two largest direct donors

  • Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation$7.7M2022–2024
  • Gerson Bakar Foundation$7.5M2022–2024

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Finances

Latest return: tax year 2024, Form 990.

Tax yearRevenueExpensesNet assets
2024$89.4M$109.5M$471.5M
2023$90.5M$114.3M$466.0M
2022$71.5M$101.0M$462.4M
2021———
2020$95.2M$68.7M$530.1M

Contributions and grants received in 2024: $43.1M.

Built from the organization’s public IRS Form 990 filings and the gifts other organizations report on theirs, processed by Aprize. Institutional donors only: individual donors are never shown. Data as of 1 November 2026.

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