California · Nonprofit
SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO
SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Speed of Change Inc Dba Tedxsandiego does
Mission
The primary purpose of tedxsandiego is to produce an annual event which supports the mission of the ted organization, presenting ideas worth spreading our annual tedxsandiego event features a variety of speakers and performers who foster learning and provoke conversations on important topics that affect san deigo and the world at large
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Tedxsandiego brings together a collection of doers and thinkers, innovators and creatives, explorers and visionaries, teachers and learners, then seeks to illuminate, inspire and activate those individuals as a way to expand horizons, change perceptions, incite action and foster new connections.after years of spreading ideas worth sharing, inspired by the global challenges that impact us all, we are shifting the focus of tedxsandiego towards action. Our response to the demands of this coming decade is to activate and connect inspired people with activities, opportunities adn communities that support positive, impactful action.
$123,006 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,006.
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 $47k to $29k (−38%).
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 SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO’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
SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
42% 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 SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO's revenue fell 54% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO
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.
Public support
100%
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 SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO: 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 SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO?
- SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO?
- Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing