California · Nonprofit
Springboard Action
Springboard Action (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,049 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($723,049). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $773k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Springboard Action does
Mission
Springboard Action seeks to strengthen the collective voice of everyday people in advocating for social change, to help create greater accountability on the part of public servants and corporations, and to perform research and development towards building new services that create a public benefit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Springboard Action seeks to strengthen the collective voice of everyday people in advocating for social change, to help create greater accountability on the part of public servants and corporations, and to perform research and development towards building new services that create a public benefit.
$82,300 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,300.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mark Wong Van Haren
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $639k → $84k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Springboard Action’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
Springboard Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 Springboard Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 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
94% of Springboard Action'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $723k 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.
Organizations like Springboard Action
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Springboard Action: 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 Springboard Action?
- Springboard Action (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,049 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($723,049). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Springboard Action have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $773,049 in grants to Springboard Action, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Springboard Action?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $723,049 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Springboard Action 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 2024–2024), 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