California · Nonprofit
ACTIVATE LABS
ACTIVATE LABS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ($64,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Activate Labs does
Mission
Activate Labs envisions communities, cities and nations where everyone belongs and that together they lead their own transformation. We do this by co-creating participatory peace through design,cultural organizing, and participatory video.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Activate labs program
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of ACTIVATE LABS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTIVATE LABS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTIVATE LABS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACTIVATE LABS draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTIVATE LABS receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,039 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
Organizations like ACTIVATE LABS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIVATE LABS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTIVATE LABS?
- ACTIVATE LABS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ($64,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIVATE LABS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $70,000 in grants to ACTIVATE LABS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIVATE LABS?
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc is the largest funder on record, with $64,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIVATE LABS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing