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Daniel Pearl Foundation

Daniel Pearl Foundation (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,363 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$217k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$1.9M
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Daniel Pearl Foundation does

Mission

Support causes that inspired Daniel Pearl's life and work and promoted cross-cultural understanding.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support of causes that inspired Daniel Pearl;s life and work. Causes that promote cross-cultural understanding and causes that seek to prevent hate-based violence.

    $28,874 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,874.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 114 ($137k) Expenses 129 ($110k) Net assets 109 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 60 ($72k) Expenses 123 ($106k) Net assets 103 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 67 ($80k) Expenses 97 ($83k) Net assets 112 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 141 ($168k) Expenses 57 ($49k) Net assets 126 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 92 ($110k) Expenses 77 ($67k) Net assets 128 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 37 ($44k) Expenses 78 ($67k) Net assets 114 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 136 ($163k) Expenses 91 ($78k) Net assets 120 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 182 ($217k) Expenses 103 ($88k) Net assets 128 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (182)Expenses (103)Net assets (128)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+12%).

$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of Daniel Pearl Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$26k
’18
−$34k
’19
−$3k
’20
$119k
’21
$44k
’22
−$23k
’23
$85k
’24
$129k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Judea Pearl

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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No longer listed·00001100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $35.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Daniel Pearl Foundation’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

Daniel Pearl Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53% 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 Daniel Pearl Foundation.

52%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

53% of Daniel Pearl Foundation'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Daniel Pearl Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Daniel Pearl Foundation

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

32% of spending goes to programs.

Program 32%Management 68%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
50%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

13%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Daniel Pearl Foundation: 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 Daniel Pearl Foundation?
Daniel Pearl Foundation (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,363 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Daniel Pearl Foundation have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $22,363 in grants to Daniel Pearl Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Daniel Pearl Foundation?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Daniel Pearl Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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