ScienceBees Institute
Legal name: Sciencebees Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821810846
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Cupertino, CA, United States
- Phone
- (650) 305-1370
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development - Agricultural
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,250
- Expenses
- $124,000
- Assets
- $13,647
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wei Hu (Manage Director & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Wei Hu (Manage Director & CEO)
- Ping Hu (Financial Officer & CFO)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To increase the awareness of, exposure to, and participation in inquiry-based science learning, and to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research by elementary, middle, and high school students.
What it reported doing in 2024
Held a series of wechat seminars, including the big reveal of the new coronavirus on 9/20/2024; IT professional and Career prospects on 4/7/2025 How scientific research, competitions, and internships can be powerful boosters in college applicatio on3/15/2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -89.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 28% of revenue deployed · 24.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.