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UNITARY FUND

UNITARY FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,000 to it, the largest being In-Q-Tel Inc ($375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$670k
Grants received
$629k
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

UNITARY FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 481 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)84% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($96k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2020 Revenue 542 ($519k) Expenses 789 ($427k) Net assets 320 ($133k)2021 Revenue 1049 ($1.0M) Expenses 1336 ($723k) Net assets 997 ($415k)2022 Revenue 872 ($835k) Expenses 1670 ($904k) Net assets 832 ($347k)2023 Revenue 1562 ($1.5M) Expenses 2557 ($1.4M) Net assets 1101 ($459k)2024 Revenue 2087 ($2.0M) Expenses 3380 ($1.8M) Net assets 1510 ($629k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (2087)Expenses (3380)Net assets (1510)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 57% · 2021 30% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of UNITARY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (68% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 500 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
19
$92k
20
$282k
21
$68k
22
$112k
23
$170k
24
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $75k → $383k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)7% 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 UNITARY FUND’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

UNITARY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% 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 UNITARY FUND.

56%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 65%diversifying over time.

“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

UNITARY FUND draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

CA
VA

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

22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding UNITARY FUND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.

Federal$4.3M
grants $4.3Mcontracts $0
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25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$2.6M
  • National Science Foundation$1.8M

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 UNITARY FUND

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITARY FUND: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds UNITARY FUND?
UNITARY FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,000 to it, the largest being In-Q-Tel Inc ($375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITARY FUND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $670,000 in grants to UNITARY FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITARY FUND?
In-Q-Tel Inc is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITARY FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing