California · Nonprofit
TECHSOUP GLOBAL
TECHSOUP GLOBAL (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,009,744 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($17,005,775). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $-1196325
What Techsoup Global does
Mission
Techsoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that leverages technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Global validation and data services: to enable safe distribution of goods, services, and giving programs, techsoup's global validation and data services have worked to define and update the eligibility standards in 238 markets globally. Techsoup has a rich repository of data records on approximately 1.6 million ngos around the globe. This data allows techsoup to efficiently and inexpensively validate the charitable status of organizations in 238 countries and territories, thereby enabling a wider range of stakeholders to give, receive, and share an even more diverse set of resources. In 2025, these services were used to connect an additional 157,000 organizations with external offers leveraging their techsoup nonprofit validation.additionally, techsoup utilizes its validation and legal expertise to power ngosource, a program that streamlines the equivalency determination (ed) process for u.s. Foundations, enabling them to efficiently provide grants to ngos outside the united states. As of june 30, 2025, grantmakers have requested over 38,704 eds for ngos in 176 countries, and an estimated over $11.4 billion in international grant funding was facilitated by eds completed by…
$13,684,207 spentof which $1,017,854 as grants$28,049,992 earned by the program47% of program spendingNgo technology marketplace: in collaboration with members of the techsoup network, techsoup has built, operates, and maintains a global marketplace of technology products, services, training, education, and content for nonprofits around the world. Techsoup's product donation program helps hundreds of corporate donors and providers distribute a retail volume of more than $600 million annually in donated or specially discounted technology and other critical resources and services in fiscal year 2025. Techsoup served over 148,000 organizations with product and service donations in fiscal year 2025. As technology and technology delivery continues to change, techsoup continues to evolve its traditional product donation program to increase the breadth of its offers to include more hardware, mobile, and cloud-based subscription offers. Additionally, through this next-generation technology marketplace, techsoup also offers a variety of nonprofit specific programs and services such as online learning through techsoup courses, technology implementation and management services, and cloud migration consultation and services. Through its ngo technology marketplace, techsoup has now facilitated…
$9,633,938 spentof which $3,017,113 as grants$6,706,353 earned by the program33% of program spendingApps4good: around the world, techsoup supports a variety of issues facing web and mobile application technology products that help ngos serve their communities. Techsoup is often sought to close the gap between big-picture vision and the ability to execute by facilitating design sessions, developing new technology interventions, and further developing and scaling existing tools. Techsoup helps to ensure that the best apps4good tools and educational resources are accessible around the globe. Caravan studios, an award-winning division within techsoup, builds technology-based services and apps that help communities organize, access, and apply resources to their most pressing challenges. The team's community-driven approach to technology development--informed by community engagement work and design thinking principles--has resulted in the successful delivery of several tech services and apps, including sheltersafe, worker connect, range, safenight, and 4bells. Caravan studios also works with local groups to support their generation and design. In this capacity, they have supported food security efforts among others.fundacja techsoup engages regional and local communities in building…
$5,885,594 spentof which $149,232 as grants$154,949 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,203,739.
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 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $32M (+77%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 9% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Clem Bason
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $344k → $3.3M.
20 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 TECHSOUP GLOBAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 funders by total. 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
TECHSOUP GLOBAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 TECHSOUP GLOBAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 25% · 2019 18% · 2020 37% · 2021 82% · 2022 20% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of TECHSOUP GLOBAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of TECHSOUP GLOBAL'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 $11M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside California, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Government funding TECHSOUP GLOBAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.7M
- Department of State$305k
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 TECHSOUP GLOBAL
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- The Techsoup Trust · exempt
- Fundacja Techsoup · exempt
- Tse Enterprises Sp Z Oo · corp_trust
- Techsoup Africa Enterprises Limited · corp_trust
- Tsl Enterprises Sas · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TECHSOUP GLOBAL: 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 TECHSOUP GLOBAL?
- TECHSOUP GLOBAL (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,009,744 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($17,005,775). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TECHSOUP GLOBAL have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $37,009,744 in grants to TECHSOUP GLOBAL, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TECHSOUP GLOBAL?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $17,005,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TECHSOUP GLOBAL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 66 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