New York · Nonprofit
IDEALISTORG INC
IDEALISTORG INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($427,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $441k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Idealistorg Inc does
Mission
Idealist.org Inc. the Organization" is a not-for-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in 1995 and is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501c3 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and from state and local taxes under comparable laws. The Organization connects people organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. The Organization is independent of any government political ideology or religious creed. Its work is guided by the common desire of its members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Idealst.org maintains the most popular English-lanugage directory of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises on the web. Over 156,000 organizations have created profiles on Idealist where they post their services jobs internships volunteer opportunities and events. Currently over 2.1 million individuals have created accounts on the site with hundreds joining every day and hundreds of thousands opt to receive free email alerts when new listings are posted that match their areas of interest and geographic location. All of these services are also available in Spanish and Portuguese. Alongside the thousands of nonprofit jobs that are posted on Idealist the Organization also provides free online tools for career assessment and self-knowledge including a career blog and a resource center. In 2024 the Organization hosted one in-person graduate school fair in New York where representatives of graduate degee programs could meet with thousands of prospective students. In 2023 the Organization paused the grad fair program and no in-person fairs were hosted. On idealist.org the Organization also hosted a directory of graduate school profiles and provides a free resource center with…
$7,544,011 spent$5,393,676 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,544,011.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.9M to $13M (+49%).
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: 2021 14% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of IDEALISTORG INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $180 → $16.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 IDEALISTORG 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.
How concentrated its funding is
IDEALISTORG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 IDEALISTORG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of IDEALISTORG INC'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k 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
IDEALISTORG INC's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like IDEALISTORG INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ideamatch Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IDEALISTORG 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 IDEALISTORG INC?
- IDEALISTORG INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($427,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IDEALISTORG INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $441,391 in grants to IDEALISTORG INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IDEALISTORG INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $427,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IDEALISTORG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 6 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