North Carolina · Nonprofit
Django Software Foundation
Django Software Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,106 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $297k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Django Software Foundation does
Mission
The goal of the Django Software Foundation is to prompt, support, and advance its open-source project: In our case, the Django web framework. The foundation's goals are to: support development of the Django by sponsoring sprints, meetups, gatherings and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The DSC fellowship program engages developers to manage some of the administrative and community management tasks of the Django Project. This facilitates community development, allowing the continued and sustained development of Django by a community of volunteers.
$218,134 spent85% of program spendingThe DSF sponsors many local events throughout the year, specifically Django and Python events. These sorts of events are about educating people in coding. Most of them work in supporting underrepresented or financially struggling groups. Additionally, the DSF supports large, successful conferences by donating specifically to their grant programs, which helps people attend those workshops and conferences otherwise would not be able to attend.
$27,650 spentof which $27,650 as grants11% of program spendingThe DSF supports the DjangoGirls organization as a whole. Many of the local events that we sponsor are Django Girls events, but theDSF also sponsors the DjangoGirls organization as a whole. The organization designs the tutorials for these workshops, and also vets local groups to make sure that the local Django Girls groups that the DSF donates to are legitimate groups, rather than people impersonating a group and looking for money. For a global network, a vetting process is important to make sure the funds get to the right people to offer the best help.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,784.
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 $248k to $137k (−45%).
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.
98% of Django Software Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $396.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Django Software 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
Django Software Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 Django Software Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
Django Software Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
Django Software Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 1,872 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,872 membership benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Django Software 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Django Software 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Django Software Foundation?
- Django Software Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,106 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Django Software Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $31,106 in grants to Django Software Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Django Software Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Django Software Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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