Delaware · Nonprofit
DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY
DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY (Delaware) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $289k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Data Visualization Society does
Mission
The Data Visualization Society (dvs) fosters a community where every member benefits from resources that support growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of expertise level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The outlier conference is the annual conference of the data networking, and hands-on practice with the art and science of data visualization. Speakers represent various subject matter areas, geographies, and backgrounds, creating a diverse study of the field of data visualization. The 2025 conference functioned as an online event, in alignment with the organization's aims to create inclusive, accessible events for data visualization practitioners. Expenses associated with outlier include speaker honorariums, part-time contracted team members who run the event, and event hosting costs, including venue, audiovisual, catering, and printing. Revenue is generated through sponsorships and ticket sales.
$103,122 spent$107,504 earned by the program40% of program spendingNightingale magazine is the journal of the Data Visualization Society, with print issues and a digital publication (nightingaledvs.com) with multiple new articles a month. The journal supports the core nonprofit aim of the society by providing a central repository for data visualization learning, inspiration, knowledge, and recommendations aligned with the strategic aims of the organization to celebrate, nurture, and advance the field. The expenses associated with the magazine include author and illustrator stipends, part-time editors who function as contractors for the organization, printing and shipping costs for disseminating the journal, and maintenance costs for the digital site. Revenue is generated through the sale of the magazine and sponsored content.
$77,341 spent$18,713 earned by the program30% of program spendingMembership tiers enable the Data Visualization Society to offer different offerings, including mentorship, course discounts, digital journal access, and more to dues-paying members. The membership structure aligns with industry standards for nonprofit professional associations with the aim of building community and promoting knowledge sharing within a specialized field. Dues-paying members also serve as voting members in the organization, overseeing the passage of any bylaw amendments and the annual nomination and confirmation of new directors. Expenses include costs related to managing the member portal and membership data, member-related communications, and part-time paid contributors to member-serving programs. Revenue is generated through membership dues.
$77,341 spent$143,784 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $257,804.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $70k to $147k (+111%).
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.
3% of DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $36k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 VISUALIZATION SOCIETY’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 VISUALIZATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
93% 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 VISUALIZATION SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 69% — 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
52% of DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY's revenue grew 15% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY: 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 VISUALIZATION SOCIETY?
- DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY (Delaware) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,500 in grants to DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DATA VISUALIZATION SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing