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Bsa Business Software Alliance Inc

Bsa | the software alliance (www.bsa.org) is the leading advocate for the global software industry before governments and in the international marketplace.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$7.5MPublic Benefit$199kEducation$100kInternational$30kEmployment$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$7k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INNER CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION$150,000
HORTON'S KIDS$50,000
ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TECHNETTECHNOLOGY NTWK: $15k → 8%ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE: $20k → 12%GLOBAL WOMEN'S INNOVATION NETWORK: $15k → 14%ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%NCSL FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%INNER CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE: $15k → 12%CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: $33k → 14%NCSL FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%AGA ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE: $15k → 12%MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $30k → 14%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $10k → 12%CONFERENCE OF WESTERN ATTORNEYS: $15k → 12%CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 14%NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATORS: $8k → 12%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $7k → 14%NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $8k → 12%CTR FOR DEM & TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 14%SOFTWARE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4.7M → 14%SOFTWARE EDUCATION FDN: $1.9M → 14%SOFTWARE EDUCATION FDN: $950k → 14%NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%GEORGETOWN U TECH LAW: $13k → 14%GEORGETOWN U TECH LAW: $13k → 14%GEORGETOWN U TECH LAW: $10k → 14%GEORGETOWN U TECH LAW: $10k → 14%GEORGETOWN U TECH LAW: $10k → 14%FAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $41k → 14%HORTON'S KIDS: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 5 repeat orgs$343k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$7.7M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalEmploymentArts & CultureScience & TechCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CO
    Conference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance
    4× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +111%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +82%
  • NF
    NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • FA
    FAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $41k · revenue +43%
  • MI
    MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • GW
    GLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +82%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Techcongress Foundation

Techcongress gives talented technologists the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in federal policymaking and shape the future of tech policy through fellowships with members of congress and congressional committees.

Community Improvement
2
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
3
Technology Policy Institute
International
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
8
Chamber of Progress

Chamber of progress is a center-left tech industry coalition devoted to a progressive society, economy, workforce, and consumer climate. we back public policies that will build a fairer, more inclusive country in which all people benefit…

Community Improvement
9
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
10
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Governors Association Center for Best Practices; the most unlike its peers is Conference of Western Attorneys General Ag Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOFTWARE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,467,529 · Science & TechSOFTWARE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EmploymentGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK: $15,000 · EmploymentConference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance: $65,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationHORTON'S KIDS INC: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $15,000 · OtherTECHNOLOGY NETWORK: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: $63,000 · Civil RightsNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $60,000 · Public BenefitFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $40,565 · Arts & CultureTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $30,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,102 · International
Science & Tech$7,467,529Employment$165,000Education$120,000Other$90,000Civil Rights$63,000Public Benefit$60,000Arts & Culture$50,565International$37,102

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOFTWARE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,467,529 over 3y, 95% of budgetConference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance: $65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: $63,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $40,565 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOLOGY NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pharmaceutical Resear…Ncta - the Internet &…Biotechnology Innovat…United States Telecom…The Business Roundtab…Consumer Technology A…Ctia - the Wireless A…Edison Electric Insti…The Pew Charitable Tr…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · United States Telecom Association · The Business Roundtable Inc · Consumer Technology Association · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bsa Business Software Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bsa Business Software Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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