California · Nonprofit
PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC
PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,949 to it, the largest being ADAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $880k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $390k
What Publicresourceorg Inc does
Mission
The specific purpose of this corporation is to create, architect, design, implement, operate and maintain public works projects on the internet for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest; to increase and diffuse knowledge about the internet in its broadest sense; to promote and facilitate the expansion, development, and growth of the public infrastructure of the internet by any means consistent with the public interest through other activities, including, but not limited to, publications, meetings, conferences, training, educational seminars, and the issuance of grants and other financial support to educational institutions, foundations and other organizations exclusively for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Edicts of government: made available primary and secondary legal materials issued by governmental authorities with the rule of law, including state codes, portions of the code of federal regulations, and state and federally-mandated public safety codes.
$604,740 spent60% of program spendingPublic documents of india: maintaining and expanding a public archive of over 700,000 books about india and in indian languages. Maintaining and expanding a public archive of over 600,000 issues of union and state government official gazettes of india. Working with the indian academy of sciences to do high-quality digitization of materials about science and in indian languages. Working with indian universities on text and data mining on large archives.
$261,929 spent26% of program spendingText and data mining:application of modern text and data mining techniques to the scholarly corpus to advance the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge including activities such as optical music recognition of public domain materials such as traditional folk songs and john phillips sousa marches.
$135,047 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,001,716.
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 2017 to 2018, from $142k to $1.3M (+789%).
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.
100% of PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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 broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PUBLICRESOURCEORG 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
PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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
PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLICRESOURCEORG 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
14%
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 PUBLICRESOURCEORG 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 PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC?
- PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,949 to it, the largest being ADAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $600,949 in grants to PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC?
- ADAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLICRESOURCEORG 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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