California · Nonprofit
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,534 to it, the largest being BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC ($2,368,043). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Technology Matters does
Mission
To create technology to help hundreds of social sector organizations solve a common social problem.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Aselo:aselo is tech matters' program to serve the crisis response helpline field. Aselo is an open source cloud-based contact center platform designed to make it possible for helplines to respond to people (especially children) in need via phone, sms, webchat, whatsapp, and other social media channels. Our goal is to assist the staff at helplines to help many more people, and help them better, thanks to improved technology tools. By the end of 2024, aselo was live in 18 countries and helplines using aselo had assisted more than 500,000 children. In 2024, aselo's global footprint expanded with a us domestic program in los angeles, california, as well as launches in new zealand and singapore.
$1,668,950 spentof which $7,500 as grants$745,060 earned by the program53% of program spendingTerraso:the terraso open source software project continued active development with a team which included professional software developers, a ux designer, and a product manager. Terraso priorities rely on feedback from local leaders on the front lines of climate change, striving to build more regenerative local economies. Terraso tools support data collection, including a specialized soil identification app, mapping, and visualization, and telling place-based stories. By the end of the year, terraso had over 800 users based in more than 85 localities (landscapes).
$1,180,122 spent$127,259 earned by the program37% of program spendingField building:tech matters provides a range of resources to support the wider application of technology to the social impact field broadly. This includes our no-charge brief consultations with nonprofit leaders, regular talks and articles on tech for good, and a podcast series featuring the leaders of technology nonprofits. During 2024, we worked on "technology for good," the first book on how to start nonprofit tech enterprises, with a planned publication date in 2025. We are also actively working on an initiative called the "better deal for data," a lightweight approach to responsible data use in the social sector, modeled after the open source and creative commons movements, which included user research and the publication of research papers on the topic of data governance.
$312,576 spent$5,567 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,161,648.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.0M (+13%).
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: 2023 8% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of TECHNOLOGY MATTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TECHNOLOGY MATTERS’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
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 TECHNOLOGY MATTERS.
“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
72% of TECHNOLOGY MATTERS's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $870k 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.
Against its field
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TECHNOLOGY MATTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $508k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$508k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TECHNOLOGY MATTERS: 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 TECHNOLOGY MATTERS?
- TECHNOLOGY MATTERS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,534 to it, the largest being BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC ($2,368,043). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TECHNOLOGY MATTERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $4,338,534 in grants to TECHNOLOGY MATTERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TECHNOLOGY MATTERS?
- BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,368,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TECHNOLOGY MATTERS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 9 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