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TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC

TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$46k
1/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Transparency Toolkit Inc does

Mission

The organization seeks to provide tools to investigative journalists, human rights groups, and activists so that these parties can effectively uncover and address issues like corruption and civil liberties violations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Providing open-source tools to investigative journalists, human rights groups, and activists.

    $1,555 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. Maintaining and creating data archives of public interest documents in collaboration with journalists and human rights groups.

    $8,366 spent
    84% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,921.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 48 ($46k) Expenses 238 ($41k) Net assets 106 ($105k)2019 Revenue 12 ($12k) Expenses 250 ($43k) Net assets 75 ($74k)2020 Revenue 16 ($15k) Expenses 67 ($11k) Net assets 78 ($78k)2021 Revenue 0 ($1) Expenses 146 ($25k) Net assets 53 ($53k)2022 Revenue 21 ($20k) Expenses 73 ($12k) Net assets 61 ($61k)2023 Revenue 0 ($1) Expenses 29 ($5k) Net assets 56 ($56k)2024 Revenue 0 ($1) Expenses 58 ($10k) Net assets 46 ($46k)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (58)Net assets (46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $105k to $74k (−29%).

$100k
$105k
$74k
$78k
$53k
$61k
$56k
$46k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$80k
’17
$6k
’18
−$31k
’19
$4k
’20
−$25k
’21
$8k
’22
−$5k
’23
−$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $20k.

Funder
'19
'20
'22
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC’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

TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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

30% 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 TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC.

70%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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

TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−992000% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−81% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC: 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 TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC?
TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC?
REVA AND DAVID LOGAN 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 TRANSPARENCY TOOLKIT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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