California · Nonprofit
CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM
CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being SHARP HEALTHCARE ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $376k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $-9567
What Corporate Directors Forum does
Mission
Corporate Directors Forum's purpose is to help directors be better directors through education and peer networking. Among our core beliefs are that boards are strategic assets of corporations and better directors make better boards.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Publications and subscriptions - consists of an annual subscription to "directorship", periodic in-house newsletters, legal updates and surveys of interest to members.
Education programs - periodic programs with speakers and/or panels discussing issues relevant to directors and boards. Approximately 75 to 125 attendees per program
$224,936 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,936.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $354k to $193k (−46%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Jessica Grounds
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Organizations like CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM
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.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM: 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 CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM?
- CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being SHARP HEALTHCARE ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $22,000 in grants to CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM?
- SHARP HEALTHCARE is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORPORATE DIRECTORS FORUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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