California · Nonprofit
OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION
OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785,500 to it, the largest being THE SAMUELI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION is better cushioned than half of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterianshared funderslocalportfolio match
- St Jude Hospitallocalportfolio match
- Charitable Ventures of Orange Countylocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 39% · 2018 37% · 2019 28% · 2020 39% · 2021 28% · 2022 55% · 2023 54% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $70k → $465k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $961k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Orange County Technology Action Network). These are real filings, and they are not money OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION’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
OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 80% · 2023 72% — 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
93% of OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterianshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 130 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Jude Hospitallocalportfolio matchWA · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charitable Ventures of Orange Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 76 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lemelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jennie V Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Halesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roberto Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles D & Twyla R Martin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack and Shanaz Langson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyons Share Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lionel & Debra Dluna Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish Community Foundation of Orange Countyshared fundersCA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Orange County Technology Action Network · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION?
- OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785,500 to it, the largest being THE SAMUELI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,785,500 in grants to OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION?
- THE SAMUELI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing