Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,725,516 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,125,850). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Electronic Privacy Information Center does
Mission
Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Epic works to secure the collective human right to privacy in the digital age. We seek to establish comprehensive protections against the unconstrained commercial extraction of personal data because privacy is essential to a functioning democracy. Epic also promotes robust limits on and oversight of surveillance systems. And we advocate for a human-rights based approach to ai policy that ensures new technologies are subject to democratic governance. Our work takes the form of education, advocacy, and litigation carried out in the public interest.
$1,376,699 spent$22,537 earned by the program48% of program spendingPlatform governance: internet platforms have become dominant players in the digital economy and continue to accumulate political and economic power on an international scale. Important societal values, such as democratic legitimacy and equality, and important personal protections, such as civil rights, privacy, and personal safety, all depend on the ability to regulate these platform companies and hold them to account when they violate the law. This team works at the intersection of privacy, platform accountability, and law through research, advocacy, and litigation.
$457,465 spent16% of program spendingConsumer privacy: we are in a data privacy crisis. Powerful technology companies have built systems that invade our private lives, spy on our families, and gather the most intimate details about us for profit. Through a vast, opaque system of databases and algorithms, we are profiled and sorted into winners and losers based on data about our health, finances, location, gender, race, and other personal characteristics and habits. Epic's team advocates for comprehensive privacy standards to limit commercial surveillance and establish meaningful restrictions on personal data collection and use, supports federal and state policymakers and regulators advancing privacy rights and data minimization standards.
$1,029,955 spent36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,864,119.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.5M to $6.5M (+18%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Shoshana Zuboff
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $377k → $374k.
14 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 74% · 2019 48% · 2020 60% · 2021 19% · 2022 53% · 2023 33% — 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
44% of ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER's revenue grew 77% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: 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 ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER?
- ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,725,516 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,125,850). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $6,725,516 in grants to ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,125,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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