California · Nonprofit
TECH4AMERICA
TECH4AMERICA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,562 to it, the largest being CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ($296,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- —
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $639k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Tech4america does
Mission
Platform for tech and public leaders to address problems
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Future of work ; Tech4america completed its "future of work" research project in 2021. The purpose was to find solutions to challenges presented by automation and the gig economy. <t4a.org/future-of-work-workers>
$12,966 spent40% of program spendingFuture of cities - partnership with america's mayors because of the pandemic shutdowns, Tech4america saw a severe decrease in (continues below)
$19,750 spent60% of program spending... Its partnership, begun in 2017,to help america's mayors better understand the technologies impacting their cities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,716.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $352k to $18k (−95%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Donald Fowler
CEO / exec d
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $402k → $30k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 TECH4AMERICA’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
TECH4AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 TECH4AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of TECH4AMERICA'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 $296k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like TECH4AMERICA
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
58%
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 TECH4AMERICA: 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 TECH4AMERICA?
- TECH4AMERICA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,562 to it, the largest being CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ($296,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TECH4AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $638,562 in grants to TECH4AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TECH4AMERICA?
- CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $296,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TECH4AMERICA 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 4 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