California · Nonprofit
ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY
ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,709 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($217,018). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $812k
- Net assets
- $929k
What Organization for Social Media Safety does
Mission
The Organization for Social Media Safety is the leading consumerprotection organization focused exclusively on social media. Through education, advocacy, and technology development, the organization protects families from the dangers of social media, including cyberbullying, human trafficking, depression, substance abuse, and other harms.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Organization for Social Media Safety provided the following educational services to make social media safer for families:- the organization provided educational services to the public. The services included live presentations in k-12 schools to teach students, parents, and educators essential social media safety skills.- the organization also conducted cutting-edge social media safety research to inform the public on evolving risks and best practices.- the organization served as a resource to the press, providing evidence and useful tips for stories concerning social media safety.- the organization provided its recommendations to the public regarding existing technology solutions to maximize safety for users of social media.
$507,903 spent$159,821 earned by the program92% of program spendingThe Organization for Social Media Safety advocated at the state and federal levels on a nonpartisan basis to improve public policy. Efforts included the development of sammy's law, which would require social media platforms to finally give parents the choice of using third-party safety software.
$41,563 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $549,466.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $402k to $896k (+123%).
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.
84% of ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Marc Berkman
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $182k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY’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
ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
35% 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 ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 70% · 2022 37% · 2023 55% — 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
75% of ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
51% of ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $281k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: 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 ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY?
- ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,709 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($217,018). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $811,709 in grants to ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $217,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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