California · Nonprofit
SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO
SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $260k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co does
Mission
Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and inform public officials and the populous in order to make better national security decisions. The experts come from the defense industry, technology companies, US Dept of Defense and Intelligence agencies, policy makers in the federal government, investors in private and public markets. Events are held virtually and in meeting spaces and private dining spaces (hotels and restaurants). All of our activities support the development of our publications.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG) is a mission-focused nonprofit, dedicated to helping the American National Security ecosystem build a new Industrial Base. The organization focuses on enabling the proliferation and growth of non-traditional sources of national security innovation, such as dual-use commercial startup companies. Three disparate stakeholder groups have responsibility for enabling the acquisition of innovative technologies for national security: Founders, Investors, and Policymakers. SVDG acts as a convening authority and conduit between these groups, identifying and addressing barriers to innovation, and advancing collaboration. Programming focuses on analysis, reporting, writing, and education.
$854,462 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $854,462.
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 $1.3M to $615k (−53%).
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.
88% of SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Chris Donaghey
Board Chairperson & President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO’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
SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO.
“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
100% of SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k 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
SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO: 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 SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO?
- SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $260,000 in grants to SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILICON VALLEY DEFENSE WORKING GROUP CO 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing