California · Nonprofit
Podium Society Inc
Podium Society Inc (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,779,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($399,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $322k
What Podium Society Inc does
Mission
Podium Society helps mindful philanthropists, brands, and studios fund social impact sports media in order to educate, inspire, and create change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Podium Society helps mindful philanthropists, brands, and studios fund social impact sports media in order to educate, inspire, and create change. Topics of focus for media are mental health, gender equality, social justice, and the environment. These projects spark conversations from the newsroom to the dinner table, helping us bust the stigma and remind us "it's ok-not-to-be ok". The organization continue to laid the ground work to increase programs in future tax years
$1,103,551 spentof which $1,101,503 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,103,551.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $325k (−72%).
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.
98% of Podium Society Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $760k → $215k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Podium Society 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
Podium Society Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
25% 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 Podium Society Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 33% · 2022 51% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
Podium Society Inc draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Podium Society Inc's revenue grew 17% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Podium Society 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Podium Society 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 Podium Society Inc?
- Podium Society Inc (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,779,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($399,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Podium Society Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,779,000 in grants to Podium Society Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Podium Society Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $399,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Podium Society Inc 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 2021–2024), 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