California · Nonprofit
SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED
SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,574 to it, the largest being CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE INC ($708,043). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $726k
What Search Group Incorporated does
Mission
Search is dedicated to improving the quality of justice and public safety through the use, management, and exchange of information, application of new technologies, and responsible law and policy, while safeguarding security and privacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Search's cybercrime training and digital forensics consists of a team of experts who provide technical assistance and training to local, state, and federal justice public safety agencies nationwide. Through training classes, technical workshops, and hands-on assistance, search trains and assists investigators in methods to prevent, detect, and investigate the rising tide of computer crime, also referred to as e-crime, cybercrime, or high-tech crime. These crimes include fraud, email threats, online stalking, identity theft, phishing, drug trafficking, cyber terrorism, and child exploitation.
$1,000,876 spent$906,597 earned by the program36% of program spendingSearch's law and policy (l&p) program provides technical assistance to states and federal entities under the national criminal history improvement program (nchip) to enhance and improve criminal history systems and related records. Direct onsite and in-house technical assistance includes supporting states, local jurisdictions, and tribes in:1) improving the accuracy and completeness of criminal history records to support both criminal justice and noncriminal justice purposes;2) implementing multiagency and multijurisdictional information exchanges to improve criminal records and to support tactical and strategic decision-making;3) expanding and enhancing analytical capabilities using existing records management systems and other administrative data sets; and 4) increasing the number of qualifying records submitted to the national instant criminal background check system (nics) index.
$729,839 spent$737,963 earned by the program27% of program spendingSearch's software and data engineering offers a portfolio of services that support justice information sharing nationwide for clients in local, state, tribal and federal organizations. These services include software architecture and systems design, application development, deployment and support, data management services and direct technical assistance and project management. Search develops data integration and information sharing tools, resources and solutions that offer capabilites such as federated query, authentication/access control, subscription/notification, process/workflow automation and data analysis.
$354,168 spent$406,878 earned by the program13% of program spendingMembership - search is a membership organization consisting of governor-appointed members from all states, the district of columbia, and the territories, augmented with at-large subject matter experts and thought leaders. Search brings together its members to address the nation's information sharing challenges, engage in a common dialog, drive national changes, and establish a community of interest and expertise. Search members participate in regular roundtable discussions, sharing common concerns and their experiences with such topics as expanding record sealing and expungement initiatives, including the impact on research and background checks; improving data quality, disposition reporting, and data sharing between courts, prosecutors, and justice stakeholders; firearms background checks; developing analytical models and templates for analysis of nibrs data; upgrading and replacing outdated cch, afis, and message switch systems; implementing rap back functionality; and criminal justice reform efforts, including use-of-force collection.open justice broker consortium - search provides contracted services to the open justice broker consortium, a non-profit membership organization…
$658,893 spent$384,194 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,743,776.
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 2020 to 2021, from $852k to $2.0M (+134%).
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: 2022 11% · 2023 30% · 2024 40% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Derek J Veitenheimer
Executive director
Board chair
Adam Dean
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $150k → $23k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED’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
SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.0M on record — $13.6M federal, $367k state.
- Department of Justice$13.6M
- NJ$182k
- MA$72k
- VT$55k
- DE$50k
- OK$7k
- FL$687
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED: 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 SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED?
- SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,574 to it, the largest being CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE INC ($708,043). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,510,574 in grants to SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED?
- CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $708,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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