4youandme
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
4YouandMe is a nonprofit biomedical research organization created to change how individuals could improve their lives with chronic diseases. We were founded to tackle the fundamental unknowns using smart phones and wearables to enable individual forecasting of symptom transitions and how to effectively return it to individuals wishing to navigate with health and disease where all data, findings, algorithms, and apps as possible will be put in the pubic domain.
- Income
- $2.3 million
- Spending
- $1.0 million
- Spent on programs
- 98%
- Reserves
- 14.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 86%
- Employees
- 10
- Volunteers
- 0
- Highest pay
- $111,239, president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 86% of charities in its peer group (science, $1m to $10m).
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 14.8 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 2% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 55% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 211% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1598% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Fair: 68 out of 100. Higher than 20% of charities in its peer group (science, $1m to $10m).
Independent board
25 of 254 of 7 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
0 of 7Reports no written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
0 of 10Did not give the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
0 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $1.0 million spent. RESEARCH: 4YouandMe research focuses on designing, doing the prerequisite development of clinical studies, submissions of protocols and consents to enable feasibility studies to be performed on how smartphones and other smart-devices such as smart-rings and smart-watches can be used to collate the data that can allow us and our contracted partners to build tools to allow individuals to better make lifestyle choices about their chronic conditions. We have developed relations with academic partners such as the Icahn School of Medicine, Oxford University, and Vector Institute, and startups such as Evidation to help carry out this work with understanding that we will place all the data, findings, algorithms, and apps in the public domain. Our mission is to see that our work will benefit both the larger scientific community and will be available to nourish communities of the public by giving freely available tools and findings to help humanity. The apps are not poised to be placed on GitHub and the data and the findings are now poised to be hosted on the Synapse Platform built by Sage Bionetworks (nonprofit). Details on 4YouandMe research activities can be found in publications and presentations available at https://www.4YouandMe
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since December 2019.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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