GMOScience
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931455006
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fairfax, CA, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nutrition
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,630
- Expenses
- $168,532
- Assets
- $92,872
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michelle Perro (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Michelle Perro (CEO)
- Ruth Westreich (Secretary)
- Mark Squire (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Since its inception, our program and vision have been linking regenerative organic agriculture and health. We offer a variety of educational options including articles, podcasts, and research with the ultimate goal of teaching families how to regain their health through the concepts and implementation of food as medicine.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, GMOScience advanced its mission to educate and advocate for public health through independent scientific research, professional education, and community outreach. Under its Educate to Regenerate initiative, the organization expanded the frequency and scope of its educational programming to better serve families, healthcare providers, and community leaders. GMOScience increased its publication output from bi-monthly to weekly articles distributed through its Substack platform, website, and newsletters. These materials focus on childrens environmental health, nutrition, and emerging public health concerns, and are disseminated across North America, with select content republished by external media outlets. The organization continued production of its monthly podcast, The New MDS: Mothers, Doctors, and Scientists, which features interdisciplinary discussions translating scientific topics into accessible information for the public. GMOScience also launched the Regenerative Pediatrics Course, a professional education program designed to train healthcare providers and community leaders in integrative and prevention-focused approaches to child health. GMOScience maintained its role in public health research and advocacy by supporting dissemination of findings from prior studies on toxic metal contamination in infant formula and glyphosate/AMPA residues in food products. These efforts contribute to ongoing dialogue with policymakers and regulatory agencies regarding childrens environmental exposures. GMOScience also contributed to public policy discussions on childrens nutrition and environmental health, including efforts related to state legislation requiring greater transparency of toxic metal content in infant formula, which advanced through committee review during the reporting period. The organizations leadership participated in conferences, lectures, and community-based events throughout the year, strengthening engagement with both professional and public audiences. GMOSciences digital presence continued to grow, reaching approximately 10,000 followers across social media platforms. GMOScience remains supported by private foundations and individual donors. Looking ahead, the organization is focused on expanding outreach to underserved communities through partnerships that address health disparities with practical, education-based solutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -76.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -24.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.