Phoenix Bioinformatics Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463600900
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Newark, CA, USA
Phone
6509957502
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Science and Technology N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,237,798
Expenses
$2,178,386
Assets
$2,415,339
Liabilities
$960,324

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TANYA BERARDINI (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOSH YOUNG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • TRILOK PRITHVI (CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER): $240,598 total reported compensation
  • JOSH YOUNG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $203,394 total reported compensation
  • CONNIE NG (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $171,571 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Develop an economically and technologically sustainable business model and platform that provides the resources to allow scientific databases to persist, grow and prosper. Integrate and systematically organize trusted data into knowledge bases and develop tools that enable reuse of and create knowledge from data. Build an interactive, computable learning environment where researchers explore relevant knowledge and build testable hypotheses. Foster interaction and collaboration among scientists to accelerate the progress of science. Promote a deeper understanding of scientific aims, methods, and results within the general public.

What it reported doing in 2025

Development and maintenance of morphobank, an open-access web application with tools and archives for evolutionary research in phylogenetics, specifically systematics and cladistics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships among species). In 2024, the resource served the public with over 29,000 separate sessions, over 171,000 individual page views, and an average of 1,000 unique visitors per month. The resource contains over 1,600 published projects, with over 300 being published in the last year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 61%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.