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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.

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

Against its field

DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,796 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· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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

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 · 1,977 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
02Who 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
$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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & 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 policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing