Montana · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK
FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK (Montana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,014 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($295,044). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $734k
What Foundation to Decrease World Suck does
Mission
Raise awareness and funds for charitable organizations through the online community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Foundation to Decrease World Suck engages the online video community of fans and creators to generate awareness of hundreds of charities and to donate to the Foundation, which has granted millions of dollars to nonprofits that promote such things as the humanities, serving the poor, educating the underprivileged, and providing health services to those in need. The Foundation raises money throughout the year, but primarily during one telethon-style online fundraiser, Project for Awesome. The Foundation grants all the money (save fundraising and administrative expenses) out to organizations selected by the board of directors, as suggested by the participants of the Project for Awesome.
$2,786,192 spentof which $2,554,117 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,786,192.
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 2019 to 2020, from $801k to $77k (−90%).
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.
99% of FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $50k → $289k.
12 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK’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
FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
98% 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 FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 54% · 2021 63% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% — 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
25% of FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK?
- FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK (Montana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,014 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($295,044). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,425,014 in grants to FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $295,044 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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