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SCINTILLON INSTITUTE

EIN 45-4323888 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$5,125,626
Expenses 2024
$5,497,413

Program services were 93.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U99
Classification
1000
Street
6868 NANCY RIDGE DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BRIAN LAWSON

    ASSOC PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $226,733
    From this org
    $189,125
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,608
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,125
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $18,440
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,168
    Filer's total
    $226,733

  • Iustin Tabarean

    ASSOC PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $188,446
    From this org
    $160,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,446
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $15,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,846
    Filer's total
    $188,446

  • IRENE PEDERSEN

    ASSOC PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $183,224
    From this org
    $156,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,557
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,667
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $15,275
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,282
    Filer's total
    $183,224

  • ALBERT CHEN

    ASSOC PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $181,504
    From this org
    $140,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,337
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,167
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $13,666
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,671
    Filer's total
    $181,504

  • VALENTIN CRACAN PHD

    ASST PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $177,936
    From this org
    $135,884
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,052
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,884
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $13,650
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,402
    Filer's total
    $177,936

  • ALEXEY TERSKIKH

    PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $163,812
    From this org
    $152,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,697
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,115
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,527
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,170
    Filer's total
    $163,812

  • Erica Chavin

    Dir Finance

    Total calculated
    $145,052
    From this org
    $116,467
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,585
    Hours/week
    40

  • TAL TEITZ

    ASSOC PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $106,028
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,028
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jiwu Wang PhD

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $42,582
    From this org
    $38,799
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,783
    Hours/week
    16

  • JOHN NOLAN PHD

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $16,770
    From this org
    $15,280
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,490
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • LIN YANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,125,626
    Expenses
    $5,497,413
    Contributions
    $4,950,426
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,855,718
    Expenses
    $3,693,899
    Contributions
    $3,793,311
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,040,729
    Expenses
    $3,729,640
    Contributions
    $4,006,489
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.