California · Nonprofit
US DIGITAL RESPONSE
US DIGITAL RESPONSE (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,495,196 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE ($8,100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What US Digital Response does
Mission
U.s. Digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. The organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono technical expertise to address common, systemic challenges facing public servants. The organization's work spans an array of needs from helping americans apply for unemployment insurance benefits and receive them faster, to election management, to broadband & digital equity, and to helping entities find and track federal grants that can help local constituents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Digital delivery: this program takes a two-pronged approach to address governments' digital capacity gap: being the capacity in instances where surge support can address critical needs and building capacity in areas such as user research, language access, and talent and procurement.
$2,087,494 spent33% of program spendingEconomic stability: this program aims to lower barriers across the government grants ecosystem to maximize results for everyday people by building products and providing rapid response services related to federal grants. Our work improves our partners' capacity for finding and reporting on federal grants with easy-to-use, open source products, builds their capacity by connecting partners with communities of practice; and informs the grants ecosystem through the sharing of our insights.
$2,080,117 spent33% of program spendingElections: our vision is to deploy usdr's unique model of tech-enabled consulting and software development to work towards an america where every election office has access to the tools and technology required to run modern, efficient, and trustworthy elections.
$2,151,522 spent34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,319,133.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.3M to $6.7M (+25%).
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.
90% of US DIGITAL RESPONSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Hillary Hartley
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6.1M → $6.4M.
10 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 US DIGITAL RESPONSE’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
US DIGITAL RESPONSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 US DIGITAL RESPONSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 49% · 2023 34% — 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
US DIGITAL RESPONSE draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
US DIGITAL RESPONSE is better cushioned than half of the 807 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 807 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like US DIGITAL RESPONSE
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
93% 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 US DIGITAL RESPONSE: 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 US DIGITAL RESPONSE?
- US DIGITAL RESPONSE (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,495,196 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE ($8,100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does US DIGITAL RESPONSE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $24,495,196 in grants to US DIGITAL RESPONSE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of US DIGITAL RESPONSE?
- CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $8,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like US DIGITAL RESPONSE 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing