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DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION

DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,000 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($275,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$240k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$495k
Net assets
$122k
1/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Data for Social Good Foundation does

Mission

Provide platform and services to support civic engagement.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Continuation of the mobile development of an app that is capable of displaying our information.

    $21,821 spent
    9% of program spending

  2. Platform improvements

    $39,718 spent
    16% of program spending

  3. Consulting for various parties.

    $194,497 spent
    76% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,036.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($18k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 1836 ($335k) Expenses 271 ($218k) Net assets 6734 ($118k)2021 Revenue 852 ($156k) Expenses 218 ($175k) Net assets 5613 ($99k)2022 Revenue 2493 ($455k) Expenses 245 ($198k) Net assets 20256 ($356k)2023 Revenue 524 ($96k) Expenses 332 ($267k) Net assets 10483 ($184k)2024 Revenue 1315 ($240k) Expenses 401 ($323k) Net assets 6935 ($122k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1315)Expenses (401)Net assets (6935)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 $129k to $448k (+247%).

$5k
$129k
$448k
$356k
$184k
$122k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,975 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$62k
’19
$117k
’20
−$20k
’21
$257k
’22
−$172k
’23
−$83k
’24
4.2
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

Jose Luis Bedolla

Treasurer / Key employee (CEO)

Board chair

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202020222024
Listed223
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200k → $20k.

Funder
'18
'19
'22
'23
total
Center for Carbon Removalunclassified
$200k
TOLA Organizing Academyunclassified
$20k
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD 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

DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

44% 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 DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

60% of DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
DC

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

’18
’19
’22
’23
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)67% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD 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.

In California

Social Good Fund Inc77%Women in Data Science and Analytics Inc75%Groundswell Fund75%Technology Matters75%Business for Social Good75%Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward74%Net Impact73%Groundswell Charitable Foundation73%

Nationally

Data for the Social Good Inc81%Social Good Fund Inc77%The Data Foundation Inc77%Data You Can Use Inc76%Women in Data Science and Analytics Inc75%Fund for Social Impact75%Data Friendly Space75%Groundswell Fund75%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Data for Social Good Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION?
DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,000 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($275,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $495,000 in grants to DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION?
The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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