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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by PROJECT DS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,831,423
Total expenses
$1,227,417
Contributions and grants received
$1,580,000
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$251,423
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$7,598,658
Total liabilities, end of year
$2,203,421
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,395,237
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$815,069
Management and general expenses
$412,348
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$815,069

Program services were 66.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $80,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,500,000

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $80,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $251,423 · excluded $251,423

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $400,170 · program services $150,595 · management and general $249,575

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $512,572 · program services $512,572

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $5,493 · program services $5,493

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $49,298 · program services $46,353 · management and general $2,945

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $55,167 · program services $39,683 · management and general $15,484

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $21,424 · program services $12,403 · management and general $9,021

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $62,577 · management and general $62,577

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $22,675 · program services $17,567 · management and general $5,108

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,280 · program services $2,196 · management and general $4,084

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,835 · program services $877 · management and general $1,958

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $18,344 · program services $2,072 · management and general $16,272

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $32,543 · program services $16,424 · management and general $16,119

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $283 · management and general $283

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,487 · management and general $2,487

  • 24a · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $25,104 · program services $6,788 · management and general $18,316

  • 24b · Other expenses: BANK FEES

    total $5,583 · management and general $5,583

  • 24c · Other expenses: TELEPHONE

    total $2,493 · program services $2,046 · management and general $447

  • 24d · Other expenses: PR PROCESSING & TAXES

    total $2,089 · management and general $2,089

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $3,684 · end of year $0

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $6,338,776 · end of year $6,341,034

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $197,180 · end of year $38,700

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $301,669 · end of year $728,029

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $491,958 · end of year $490,895

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $59,364

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $59,364

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $283 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $86,576 · end of year $43,081

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $2,455,743 · end of year $2,160,340

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year -$1,360,047 · end of year -$927,731

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,151,278 · end of year $6,322,968

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE CEO ROUNDTABLE ON CANCER CREATED THE INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT PROJECT DATA SPHERE (PDS) IN 2014. PROJECT DATA SPHERE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT DATA SPHERE PLATFORM, A FREE DIGITAL LIBRARY-LABORATORY THAT PROVIDES ONE PLACE WHERE THE WORLD'S RESEARCH COMMUNITY CAN BROADLY SHARE, INTEGRATE AND ANALYZE HISTORICAL, PATIENT-LEVEL, COMPARATOR-ARM DATA FROM ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY PHASE III CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS. THE PROJECT DATA SPHERE PLATFORM IS AVAILABLE TO RESEARCHERS AFFILIATED WITH LIFE SCIENCE COMPANIES, HOSPITALS, AND INSTITUTIONS, AS WELL AS INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS. ANYONE INTERESTED IN CANCER RESEARCH CAN APPLY AND BECOME AN AUTHORIZED USER. PROJECT DATA SPHERE HAS A PORTFOLIO OF BIG DATA RESEARCH PROGRAMS INVOLVING INNOVATIVE DATA SCIENCE INCLUDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROJECT DATA SPHERE BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS TO CANCER CLINICAL TRIAL DATA SHARING. OPERATING TWO COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMS AN OPEN-ACCESS DATA SHARING PLATFORM HOUSING 252+ DE-IDENTIFIED CLINICAL TRIALS AND 250,000+ PATIENT RECORDS (NEJM), AND CLOSED-ACCESS PRECOMPETITIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS WHERE PHARMA, ACADEMIA, THE FDA, AND TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS COLLABORATE ON AI-DRIVEN ONCOLOGY TOOLS.

  • PROJECT DATA SPHERE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT DATA SPHERE PLATFORM, A FREE DIGITAL LIBRARY LABORATORY THAT PROVIDES ONE PLACE WHERE THE WORLDS RESEARCH COMMUNITY CAN BROADLY SHARE, INTEGRATE AND ANALYZE HISTORICAL, PATIENT LEVEL, COMPARATOR-ARM DATA FROM ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY PHASE III CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS. THE PROJECT DATA SPHERE PLATFORM IS AVAILABLE TO RESEARCHERS AFFILIATED WITH LIFE SCIENCE COMPANIES, HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS, AS WELL AS INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS. ANYONE INTERESTED IN CANCER RESEARCH CAN APPLY AND BECOME AN AUTHORIZED USER.

    Expenses $815,069

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Julie Miller

    ED FINANCE & HR

    Total calculated
    $197,959
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $173,046
    Other
    $24,913
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $173,046 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $6,101 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,812 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $197,959 related
  • Dr Danny Bar-Zohar

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • John Crumpler

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dr James H Goodnight

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Major General Elder Granger MD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dr Peter Pisters

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dr Norman Sharpless

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Christopher A Viehbacher

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Scott White

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jonathan McDunn

    PDS PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $301,551
    From this org
    $267,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,705
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $267,846
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,488
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,217
    Filer's total
    $301,551
  • Dr Sean Khozin

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $511,542
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $491,864
    Other
    $19,678
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $491,864 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $1,667 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,011 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $511,542 related
  • David M Reese

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Ravi Komandur

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $217,291
    From this org
    $198,519
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,772
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,519
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,575
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,197
    Filer's total
    $217,291
  • Eleanor McCabe

    PROGRAM MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $153,350
    From this org
    $130,712
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,638
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,712
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,318
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,320
    Filer's total
    $153,350

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
WE PARTNER WITH AN OUTSIDE HR SERVICES GROUP THAT PROVIDES SALARY INFORMATION FOR REVIEW AND COMPARISON WITH THE MARKET. THE BOARD MEETS IN CLOSED SESSION TO REVIEW THE PERFORMANCE AND COMPENSATION OF TOP MANAGEMENT.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • PROJECT DATA SPHERE LLC

    INACTIVE · DE

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
2 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202611889349300011

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