California · Nonprofit
DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP
DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,510 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Digital Inquiry Group does
Mission
The Digital Inquiry Group strengthens democracy by preparing individuals to make sense of the past and navigate our digital present.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Digital literacy: the Digital Inquiry Group develops evidence-based curriculum and assessments that promote digital literacy. Based on research with professional fact checkers, the civic online reasoning curriculum was recognized with the media and information literacy alliance award from unesco.history: the Digital Inquiry Group's "reading like a historian" curriculum and "beyond the bubble" history assessments engage students in historical inquiry and primary source analysis. These curricular materials have been downloaded over 16 million times and are used in all 50 states and around the globe. The "reading like a historian" curriculum received the james harvey robinson prize for "the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field for public or educational purposes" from the american historical association.general program: the Digital Inquiry Group is devoted to preparing individuals to make sense of the past and navigate our digital present. Dig develops, rigorously tests, and freely disseminates curriculum materials. It also supports educators with a range of professional development offerings.
$271,550 spent$377,675 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $271,550.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $2.3M (+2%).
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: 2023 1% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Joel Breakstone
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $100k → $410k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP’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
DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 61% — 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
62% of DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k 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.
Against its field
DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP: 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 DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP?
- DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,510 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,485,510 in grants to DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 11 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