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RAPID SCIENCE INC
BROOKLYN, NY · EIN 463875441 · Form 990 · FY2024 · NTEE E03 · Health Care · Small ($100K-$1M) · rapidscience.org
revenue
$236K
expenses
$130K
net assets
$123K
employees
1
program ratio
92%
mission · from form 990

THE RAPID SCIENCE MISSION IS TO ACCELERATE THE PACE AND ACCURACY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THROUGH OPEN, EQUITABLE AND COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES. AS A 501(C)(3) FISCAL SPONSOR, TO CONNECT AND STRATEGIZE WITH ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS THAT TRANSFORM VISION TO POLICIES AND PRACTICES.

profile · synthesized from sources

Rapid Science Inc. accelerates scientific discovery by promoting open, equitable, and collaborative research practices. As a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, it supports initiatives that develop and implement tools for open science, including the C-Score Suite to measure and reward collaborative behaviors. The organization connects projects, researchers, and funders to transform research culture and institutional policies.

irs program accomplishments · form 990 part iii · fy2024

What they reported doing

  1. #1 primary $30K
    NSF EAGER/FLOES GRANT: THE FLOES INITIATIVE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE LONG TERM MISSION OF ICOR/RAPID SCIENCE-I.E., SEEKING EVIDENCE ON THE EFFICACY OF OPEN RESEARCH-BY MATCHING RESEARCH INITIATIVES SEEKING AN EVALUATION PLAN WITH SCHOLARS WHO CAN STRATEGIZE AND CONDUCT THAT RESEARCH.
  2. #2 $10K
    SPARC NVF GRANT: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR ALL PEOPLE
named programs · 3 · from sources

What they call their work

C-Score Suite
Set of tools and processes to measure, incentivize, and reward open collaborative research behaviors, including the Collaboration Workspace, Editorial Facilitator, and Collaboration Score metric.
Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR)
Community initiative that builds evidence for open research by connecting projects, hosting webinars, and curating the Open Research Beacon library of aligned projects.
Open Research Beacon (ORB)
Curated library of open research projects that serves as a resource for identifying best practices and fostering connections across the open science community.
activities · 3 groups

What they do

  • Open Research Infrastructure & Publishing 6 activities
    • Advocates for modernized scientific communication and publishing standards
      Engages with open-science leaders to advance new norms in research dissemination, including credit attribution, early sharing, and collaborative workflows. Communicates findings and trends to promote cultural change in academic evaluation and publishing practices.
    • Conducts metascience research to advance open and collaborative science
      Produces empirical evidence on the benefits of open research practices through real-world implementations, focusing on improving reproducibility, fostering innovation, and challenging overreliance on high-impact publications. This includes building case studies, cataloging best practices, and generating data to shift research culture from competition to collaboration.
    • Develops and implements the Collaboration Score (C-Score) to measure and reward collaborative research
      Designs and maintains the C-Score, a metric that quantifies and incentivizes early, open sharing of research findings and collaborative behaviors in multi-institutional teams. The system includes both quantitative scoring and qualitative assessment of contributions, integrated into infrastructure like the Research Output Management System (ROMS) and collaboration hubs.
    • Operates the Open Narrative initiative to promote living, collaborative research records
      Maintains Open Narratives as dynamic, versioned research outputs that incorporate ongoing updates, community feedback, and revisions. Provides publication credentials, contribution tags, and citation mechanisms for data, code, protocols, and team inputs, using models that list contributors by C-Score or version-specific participation.
    • Organizes open research webinars and curates collaborative science resources
      Hosts webinars and maintains a library of open research projects through the Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR) initiative. Also compiles and improves open-access tools for science communication.
    • Supports open data sharing and compliance for journals and researchers
      Helps journal editors and authors meet open data requirements by auditing data-sharing practices, identifying underlying datasets in research articles, and advising on best practices for public sharing. Enables consistent, scalable compliance with funder and publisher policies.
  • Nonprofit Capacity Building Services 1 activity
    • Provides fiscal sponsorship and compliance support for open science initiatives
      Offers fiscal sponsorship services to non-501(c)(3) organizations and community-led projects, enabling them to receive tax-deductible donations and apply for grants. Includes reviewing and submitting grant applications, managing fund disbursement, and ensuring alignment with IRS charitable regulations.
  • Uncategorized 1 activity
    • Delivers strategic and operational support for collaborative research infrastructure
      Provides comprehensive project management, strategic planning, workflow analysis, technology adoption, and sustainability consulting to research consortia, journals, funders, and universities. Services include partner identification, staffing, budgeting, and implementation of technology builds and integrations to support open science projects.
financials · form 990 · fy2024
revenue
Total revenue$236K
Contributions & grants$230K97%
Program service revenue$00%
Investment income$00%
Other revenue$6K
expenses
Total expenses$130K
Program expenses92%
Admin / overhead8%
Fundraising0%
Salaries & benefits$121K
Grants paid out$0
Largest expense lineCompensation
balance sheet
Total assets$123K
Cash$123K
Investments$0
Liabilities$0
Net assets$123K
Liquid reserves11.4 mo
3 years on record · 2020–2024 · YoY revenue +2261.5%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2024

Who runs it

paid leadership · 2
NameTitleHours/wkCompensation
KRISTEN RATAN BOARD DIRECT 0 $25K
SARAH GREENE SECRETARY 3 $10K
board members · 5
  • CAROL J LEE — BOARD DIRECT
  • DAVID MOORE — TREASURER
  • KEITH YAMAMOTO — TREASURER
  • KRISTAN RATAN — STAFF EXECUT
  • SARAH GREEN — STAFF DIRECT
relationships · 30

Who they work with

  • ASAPbio Network — Shared board membership and alignment in promoting open life sciences communication.
  • ASAPbio Partner — Kristen Ratan serves on the board of ASAPbio.
  • Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Network — Initiative whose grantees use the collaborative research hub developed with Rapid Science.
  • Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Partner — Jointly implemented open collaborative science practices including tracking and reporting of shared findings and collaborative behaviors.
  • American Institute of Physics Publishing Partner — Kristen Ratan serves on the board of the American Institute of Physics Publishing.
  • Bruce Alberts Partner — Retired Board Chair who provided strategic input and advocacy for the development of a new reward system for scientific collaboration over more than a decade.
  • Cancer Commons Partner — Collaboration through shared design and product development for researchers.
  • Center for Open Science Partner — Collaboration through shared design and product development for researchers.
  • Code for Science and Society Network — Shared board membership and alignment in open science infrastructure.
  • Continuous Science Foundation Partner — Partner organization developing integrated standards and tooling to bridge gaps between data, software, and storytelling in science.
  • DataSeer Partner — Collaborated with Rapid Science and Stratos to support the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative.
  • DataSeer Partner — Kristen Ratan is an advisory board member of DataSeer.
  • DataSeer Partner — Partner project using AI and natural language processing to identify data collection in scientific texts and promote best practices in data sharing.
  • EF Partner — Collaborates with the EF on authorship and credit attribution in the Open Narrative initiative.
  • ICOR Partner — Community-based organization connected by Rapid Science to build evidence and best practices in open research.
  • Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research Partner — Initiative co-led by Rapid Science to build community and catalog best practices in open research.
  • Incentivizing Open Research Network — ICOR operates under the Incentivizing Open Research initiative, sharing its mission and platform.
  • Invest in Open Infrastructure Partner — Kristen Ratan is an advisory board member of Invest in Open Infrastructure.
  • NSF Government — Receives grant funding through the NSF EAGER/FLOES grant program.
  • Open Research Beacon Partner — Curated library of open research projects managed under the ICOR initiative in partnership with Rapid Science.
  • PREreview Partner — Kristen Ratan is an advisory board member of PREreview.
  • RSPDC Partner — Partner initiative under the Rapid Science umbrella developing the Collaboration Score and related infrastructure for measuring team science.
  • Rapid Science Partner — Kristen Ratan serves on the board of Rapid Science.
  • SPARC Partner — Collaborates on the NVF grant program focused on research and education for information access.
  • Social Impact Commons Network — Reference partner for fiscal sponsorship models
  • Stencila Partner — Kristen Ratan is an advisory board member of Stencila.
  • Stratos Partner — Collaborated with Rapid Science and DataSeer to support the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative.
  • Stratos Partner — Partner organization designing and implementing solutions to increase the speed, transparency, and impact of scholarly research.
  • Stratos (Strategies for Open Science) Partner — Consulting partner in the development and implementation of a research collaboration hub for ASAP grantees.
  • Tim Vines Partner — Founder and CEO of DataSeer, leading the organization's strategy and development.
strategies · 5

How they approach the work

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  • Community-Driven Open Science Infrastructure
    methodology: community_driven_coherence
    By building shared infrastructure and co-developing standards with researchers, RAPID SCIENCE INC enables sustainable, collaborative research ecosystems because collective ownership and aligned practices increase adoption and long-term impact of open science tools.
  • Continuous, Iterative Research Processes
    methodology: continuous_science
    By integrating automation, data, and computation into continuous cycles of review, replication, and revision, RAPID SCIENCE INC improves research reliability because ongoing validation reduces error accumulation and accelerates knowledge refinement.
  • Fiscal Sponsorship as a Catalyst for Collaborative Innovation
    methodology: fiscal_sponsorship_for_collaborative_innovation
    By using Model C fiscal sponsorship to provide administrative support while preserving autonomy, RAPID SCIENCE INC fosters innovation in open science because it lowers barriers to funding and sustainability for emerging projects without imposing top-down control.
  • Incentive Transformation for Open Collaboration
    methodology: incentive_transformation
    By replacing traditional publication-based metrics with alternative recognition systems like the C-Score and formal credit for collaboration, RAPID SCIENCE INC increases open research behaviors because scientists are more likely to engage in sharing, replication, and team science when these actions are visibly rewarded.
  • Networked Expertise with Professional Facilitation
    methodology: professional_facilitation_for_trust_building
    By deploying a distributed network of experts guided by professional facilitation, RAPID SCIENCE INC builds trust and aligns transdisciplinary teams because structured coordination enables effective collaboration across diverse scientific cultures and technical domains.