Oregon · Nonprofit
SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION
SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,388,716 to it, the largest being TECHSOUP GLOBAL ($3,398,058). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $941k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $345k
What Secondmuse Foundation does
Mission
The stated mission of Secondmuse Foundation is to foster and develop diverse, participatory innovation communities that incubate solutions to social, economic and environmental issues; including through public education, facilitating the ability of private, commercial actors, entrepreneurs and governments to generate shared visions and take collective action in advancing solutions that address environmental issues and local economies, and incubating and funding programs and solutions that advance social, environmental and/or economic justice. It will also generate, codify, and publish learnings and insights and facilitate broader discourse to catalyze community development on a larger scale.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Secondmuse Foundations accomplishments both through direct implementation and fiscal sponsorship of programs, have significantly contributed to enhancing the well-being of both people and the planet. In 2024, we completed our flagship program, get (gender equity in tech) cities, to radically increase equity in tech. In addition, the foundation has also continued two fiscally sponsored projects, both of which ended in 2024. The future economy lab asia, focused on innovating how we create financial mechanisms and collaborative strategies across regions, impact sectors, and communities around the world. The Secondmuse Foundation sponsored a grant from the visa foundation, to design programs that address barriers faced by gender-smart, climate-positive businesses in accessing capital in south and southeast asia. The foundation has been supporting and sponsoring black tech street (bts) since its inception. In 2023, it hosted def con 31 in collaboration with the white house and many other organizations. It was named part of the national cyber workforce and education strategy and the founder and executive director, tyrance billingsley ii, testified at the congressional black caucus…
$3,233,824 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,233,824.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.3M to $7.8M (+245%).
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.
97% of SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $3.4M → $953k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION’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
SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
81% 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 SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $828k 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
SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION's revenue fell 45% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Commerce$750k
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 SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION: 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 SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION?
- SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,388,716 to it, the largest being TECHSOUP GLOBAL ($3,398,058). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,388,716 in grants to SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION?
- TECHSOUP GLOBAL is the largest funder on record, with $3,398,058 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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