Texas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW
COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,125 to it, the largest being THE URBAN INSTITUTE ($410,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $568k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $849k
- Net assets
- $-26414
What Community Information Now does
Mission
Community Information Now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. Cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Data integration, analysis, visualization, and training for the general public:through free online tools and print media, Community Information Now (cinow) makes local data and help understanding and using that data widely available to the general public. Cinow expands public access to data through its viz-a-lyzer and other data tools, community assessments and other reports, data dashboards and indicator projects, data literacy resources, and its curated data explorer website that helps people find trustworthy data published by others. Cinow develops local data tools and content tailored to public users of several different levels of technical knowledge and skill. The data content itself covers a wide variety of issues like demographics, income and poverty, education, health, housing, employment, civic engagement, and neighborhood revitalization.
$588,043 spent$51,017 earned by the program93% of program spendingData integration, analysis, and/or visualization for targeted partner needs:Community Information Now (cinow) provides mission-focused data services to local nonprofits, local governments, and collaborations to improve their ability to serve the public good. Key services include:1. Data support to collaborative and collective impact initiatives, such as staffing results-based accountability and outcome-focused planning processes; developing outcomes and indicators; identifying apporpriate data sources; analyzing, mapping, and otherwise visualizing the data; and assisting the partners in understanding and using the data. 2. Evaluation and performance management, including developing evaluation plans and progress metrics; accesssing appropriate data sources; integrating data across organizations; analyzing and communicating the data; and assisting partners in using the data to improve performance.3. Other targeted-need collection, analysis, geocoding, mapping and presentations.
$26,471 spent$16,870 earned by the program4% of program spendingNational neighborhood indicators partnership (nnip):Community Information Now (cinow) is an active local partner in the national neighborhood indicators partnership, a network of local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data. Supported and coordinated by the urban institute, nnip network activities build local partners' capacity to democratize data to inform local decisionmaking and support residents working to strengthen their neighborhoods and communities. Cinow contributes to and is strengthened through nnip through peer learning by actively participating in-person meetings and webinars, technical assistance calls, and the development of written and online tools and guides. Cinow's executive director also serves in a three-year term on nnip's executive committee, which sets network policy, plans meetings and other activities, and monitors network performance.
$15,757 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $630,271.
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 2019 to 2020, from $337k to $168k (−50%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Maria Robledo Montecel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $230k → $108k.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW’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
COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 78% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 54% — 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
COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 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
COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW's revenue grew 37% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$800k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW: 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 COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW?
- COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,125 to it, the largest being THE URBAN INSTITUTE ($410,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $849,125 in grants to COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW?
- THE URBAN INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY INFORMATION NOW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 4 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