New Jersey · Nonprofit
CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC
CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($650,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $659k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $531k
What Cyber Independent Testing Laboratory Inc does
Mission
To work for a fair, just, and safe software marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
In 2020 CITL completed the final stages of development on the CITL Automated Dynamic Vulnerability Discovery (CITL-ADVD) tool. CITL_ADVDprovides automated discovery of novel vulnerabilities and defects across thousands of applications and libraries per month, improving the state of the art for automated vulnerability discovery by orders of magnitude. For comparison, a skilled team using traditional fuzzing tools would likely be able to test 10-50 targets a month. Target instrumentation, harnessing, and input generation are fully automated. CITL-ADVD is designed to identify memory corruption, command injection, and other classes of vulnerabilities and defects. CITLs approach changes vulnerability hunting from bespoke targeting and identification, to sifting through 1000s of novel CITL-identified vulns for matching critera. This capability would enable teams to find and fix vulnerabilities in open source Linux software en masse. For example, over the summer, CITL fuzzed all of the Ubuntu-APT repository and reported hundreds of bugs to the relevant open source project maintainers. Open source software is used in most critical infrastructure and corporate entities, often in critical…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.4M to $805k (−45%).
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: 2020 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. 2 of the last 4 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 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $200k → $250k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC’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
CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% — 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
CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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.
Government funding CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $529k on record.
- Department of Defense$529k
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 CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC: 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 CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC?
- CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($650,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $750,000 in grants to CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CYBER INDEPENDENT TESTING LABORATORY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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