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ORBMEDIA INC

ORBMEDIA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,780,330 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,375,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$85
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$3k
6/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Orbmedia Inc does

Mission

Orb media fuses journalism, data science and knowledge from the crowd to illuminate our human story in order to better educate and unite a global audience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Orb tracks, reports and reveals how we as a human community are collectively faring. Our journalism is designed to be accessible and relevant to as many people around the world as possible. Orb media's work is delivered to news organizations across formats (multimedia, print, radio and tv broadcast) and languages, ensuring that the findings of our investigations reach broad audiences. Projects are published in partnership with newsroom brands and media networks. By collaborating in this unique way orb media and its partners have demonstrated a powerful distribution model that is efficient for publishing partners and effective for orb media achieving its mission to reach and unite a global audience.

    $1,531 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,531.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($587k) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($249k)2019 Revenue 104 ($610k) Expenses 55 ($893k) Net assets 7 ($17k)2020 Revenue 83 ($488k) Expenses 25 ($408k) Net assets 39 ($97k)2021 Revenue 38 ($222k) Expenses 21 ($346k) Net assets -11 ($-27096)2022 Revenue 10 ($62k) Expenses 2 ($26k) Net assets 3 ($8k)2023 Revenue 1 ($5k) Expenses 0 ($6k) Net assets 3 ($8k)2024 Revenue 0 ($85) Expenses 0 ($5k) Net assets 1 ($3k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (0)Expenses (0)Net assets (1)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 2020 to 2021, from $147k to $13k (−91%).

$304k
$27k
$147k
$13k
$9k
$8k
$3k
2017201920202021202220232024
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.

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2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ORBMEDIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.0M
’17
−$283k
’19
$80k
’20
−$124k
’21
$36k
’22
−$527
’23
−$5k
’24
0.3
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.

Board chair

Mary C Bingham

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

2017201920202021
Listed7988
Joined··+1+0
No longer listed··20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $830k → $7k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 ORBMEDIA 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

ORBMEDIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 ORBMEDIA INC.

89%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

27% of ORBMEDIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of ORBMEDIA 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 $349k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states.

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CT
CA
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ORBMEDIA INC's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−5381% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−72% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

15%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ORBMEDIA INC?
ORBMEDIA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,780,330 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,375,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ORBMEDIA INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,780,330 in grants to ORBMEDIA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ORBMEDIA INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,375,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ORBMEDIA INC 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 13 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