Virginia · Nonprofit
Association of Public Data Users
Association of Public Data Users (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,000 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($690,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $210k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $72k
What Association of Public Data Users does
Mission
APDU is a national association where users, producers, and disseminators of public statistical data convene to share knowledge and build relationships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Census Project helps ensure that low income families and communities, people of color, immigrants and children are fully represented and accurately counted in the 2020 census and the American community survey, thereby providing the information essential to data-driven decision making in the development of public policy and distribution of public funding.
$131,070 spent76% of program spendingMembership: APDU is the national network for public data producers, disseminators, and users. The Association offers professional development to members and provides a mechanism to network and advocate on behalf of public data users. The APDU membership consists of government agencies, universities and academic institutions, state and local governments, corporate and media organizations, nonprofits, startups, and individual advocates. while the annual conference and parts of this website are open to the public, members have access to additional resources, restricted website areas, and discounts on products.
$32,900 spent$38,410 earned by the program19% of program spendingConference Program: Serves data users and data producers to examine how federal statistics, administrative data and a growing world of private data are converging to redirect how public data will be defined, collected, and used for years to come.
$8,795 spent$39,656 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $172,765.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $231k to $80k (−66%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
63% of Association of Public Data Users’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $115k → $190k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Association of Public Data Users’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
Association of Public Data Users leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
64% 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 Association of Public Data Users.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 61% · 2021 61% · 2022 55% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of Association of Public Data Users's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $396k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
Association of Public Data Users runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Association of Public Data Users
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Association of Public Data Users: 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 Association of Public Data Users?
- Association of Public Data Users (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,000 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($690,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Association of Public Data Users have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,086,000 in grants to Association of Public Data Users, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association of Public Data Users?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association of Public Data Users find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing