Maryland · Nonprofit
SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC
SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,558 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Social Performance Task Force Inc does
Mission
To promote and support effective social performance management standards (universal standards for social performance management) throughout the global microfinance industry in order to create responsible and ethical business practices among financial service providers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Setting and promoting standards:the universal standards for financial service providers were first launched in 2012 and updated in 2016. Sptf manages a technical review committee (trc) to follow a transparent and user-driven standard revision process based on the iseal code of good practice for setting social and environmental standards. The revised standards have been designed to keep pace with the financial sector industry's needs and provide new guidelines on responsible savings and insurance products, as well as delivery channels using digital services and agent models, all with an eye toward mitigating risk and creating benefits for clients. The universal standards also include new content on responsibility to the environment. The trc reviews the universal standards every 3 years. Sptf is in charge of gathering and processing all feedback received from the inclusive finance industry, as well as with the broader impact investment community. Manage effective communications - after releasing the universal standards in 2012, sptf developed several resources to help with their awareness and implementation, such as brief handouts, message manuals, the universal standards…
$496,576 spent$274,217 earned by the program23% of program spendingAssessing, improving, demonstrating:sptf has worked with one of its members, cerise, to develop a free assessment tool (called the spi4) that enables fsps to assess their social performance management practices against the universal standards. This tool allows fsps to understand their spm strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan for improvement. Sptf does not directly provide technical assistance to fsps because that would compete with its members. Rather, sptf works to make sure that the most updated trainings, resources, and tools are available to fsps and ta providers, and that they know how to use them. Sptf also conducts online trainings and provides free resources in several languages to help improve practices related to the universal standards.to advance work on demonstrating outcomes, the sptf runs the outcomes working group to develop guidelines both for investors and for fsps for measuring and managing outcomes as well as to create a list of common outcome indicators in the areas of poverty/housing/assets, business, and resilience.
$1,634,023 spent75% of program spendingReporting & demonstrating:reporting on spm data helps the responsible inclusive finance sector be transparent, ensures the data is available to investors, and allows the industry to benchmark and analyze trends. Sptf plays a coordinating role in this activity as mix, cerise and the rating agencies conduct the vast majority of the direct work in collection of data. Sptf is managing discussion amongst these actors to consolidate this spm information onto a common data platform so that it is more accessible to users.
$42,564 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,173,163.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $5.1M (+197%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Laura Foose
Executive director
Board chair
Loic De Canniere
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $54k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE 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
SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
77% 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 SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 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
61% of SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC'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. Of the $129k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC?
- SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,558 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $328,558 in grants to SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC?
- NEW VENTURE FUND 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 SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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