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FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC

FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,440,000 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($4,440,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$31k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$187k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Factor Philanthropy Inc does

Mission

Positively influencing the long-term future and promoting the long-term welfare of humans and other sentient beings.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization plans to engage in research and education to develop data and new insights into how to positively affect the long-term future; make grants to organizations and promising individuals who are well-positioned and committed to ensuring the long-term future goes well; serve as a fiscal sponsor of projects that further longtermist priorities; and gather people together who are interested in or working on longtermist issues. In addition, the organization will build up the longtermist community and support the development of people who can meaningfully contribute to the longtermist movement through residency programs, movement building, and talent development, and grants to individuals to support them in career transitions from the private sector to academia, the government, and nonprofits. In 2024, the organization funded one grantee in furtherance of its exempt purpose.

    $796,190 spentof which $672,190 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $796,190.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 1 ($31k) Expenses 25 ($850k) Net assets 19 ($187k)
20232024
Revenue (1)Expenses (25)Net assets (19)Peer revenue range

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 $1.0M to $317k (−69%).

$1.0M
$317k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’23
−$819k
’24
4.5
months of
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

Claire Zabel

President/CEO/secretary/director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC's revenue fell 99% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−2638% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−99% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FACTOR PHILANTHROPY 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 FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC?
FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,440,000 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($4,440,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,440,000 in grants to FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC.
Who is the largest funder of FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC?
GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FACTOR PHILANTHROPY INC 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.

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 1 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