New York · Nonprofit
DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,347,776 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($3,952,878). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Data & Society Research Institute Inc does
Mission
Data & society research institute, inc. Advances public understanding of the social and cultural implications of data-centric technologies and automation. Through interdisciplinary research and engagement, the institute works to ensure that knowledge guides development and governance of technology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Data & society works to balance our commitment to rigorous empirical research with engagement efforts to ensure that this knowledge reaches those shaping the development and governance of technology. The objectives are 1) to challenge existing narratives about the purpose and power of technology in society using rigorous interdisciplinary research, 2) to expand and support a diverse field of people and organizations grappling with cultural, legal, political, and technical approaches to issues raised by data-centric technologies, 3) to ensure that civil society, media, policymakers, and industry engage with our research insights-and those of our broader network-to inform and reframe decision-making around technology, and 4) to encourage a culture and practice of experimentation and new forms of knowledge production.
$4,616,059 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,616,059.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $4.9M to $8.4M (+73%).
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: 2018 25% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 21% · 2023 12% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Janet Haven
Executive director
Board chair
Charlton Mcilwain
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $4.4M.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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 & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 30% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC is better cushioned than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $757k on record.
- National Science Foundation$757k
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 DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
- DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,347,776 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($3,952,878). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $31,347,776 in grants to DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,952,878 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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