Silent Spring Institute

Advocacy group

A US nonprofit environmental-health research institute focused on environmental causes of breast cancer. · United States

Visit the source site · Audited 2026-10-14

Who pays for it

For July 2024 through June 2025, Silent Spring reported $5,758,023 in revenue, including $5,672,563 in contributions and grants (98.5%); the filing does not show donor sectors.

Status: Supporting

Supporting because its peer-reviewed studies can inform research, while its advocacy mission and unknown donor-sector shares call for a separate source with different incentives. Hazard screening does not establish an individual's exposure or risk.

How SafeMomma uses it

SafeMomma cites peer-reviewed studies as research evidence and keeps hazard findings separate from individual exposure and risk conclusions.

The audit

Who controls it: Silent Spring's scientists and collaborators conduct its research, which is published in journals and public reports. It is a research nonprofit, not a government health agency or obstetric practice.
Money: Its Form 990 for July 2024 through June 2025 reports $5,758,023 in revenue and $5,672,563 in contributions and grants. Those totals do not identify donor sectors or the corporate share.
Conflict rules: Silent Spring says corporate gifts are unrestricted or gala support and cannot direct research questions, findings or release. Gifts above $30,000 receive enhanced review; corporate donors with a direct, predictable research conflict are excluded under its policy.
Method: Peer-reviewed papers generally describe sampling, laboratory and statistical methods. A chemical hazard screen identifies candidates for further study but does not by itself show harmful individual exposure or quantify personal risk.
Dates on its pages: The latest identified impact report is for 2025, and its investigator conflict policy is dated June 21, 2026; each research finding is tied to its study date and sample.
Political exposure: Silent Spring is not a government agency and has no administration-appointed editors. The 2015–2026 materials reviewed did not identify a politically ordered removal, rewrite or reversal of its research findings.
Money exposure: Its FY2025 filing reports $5,672,563 in contributions and grants, but does not identify donor sectors. Corporate donor names and amounts, other than gala donors, are available on request; no specific company-funded result or change to a reviewed finding was identified.
Track record: The institute reports peer-reviewed environmental-health studies and public research reporting. No retraction or correction relevant to pregnancy or breastfeeding guidance was identified in the reviewed materials; its work is not individual medical advice.

Where this comes from

Incentive exposure describes pressure from money or politics, not whether the source is right. Funding alone does not show influence.

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