California · Nonprofit
USENIX ASSOCIATION
USENIX ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,680 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($94,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $466k
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Usenix Association does
Mission
USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, fosters technical excellence and innovation, supports and disseminates research with a practical bias, provides a neutral form for discussion of technical issues, and encourages computing outreach into the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, USENIX organized ten major technical conferences and workshops on advanced computing systems topics. We also administered diversity, student, and Black student grants to encourage conference attendance by these communities. In 2024, USENIX organized the following conferences, which included subjects related to security, privacy engineering, file and storage technologies, networked and operating systems design and implementation, and site reliability engineering: 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST); 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI); SREcon24 Americas, SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa (site reliability engineering conferences); 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI); 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC); Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS); 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security); 18th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT); 2024 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR).
$4,977,420 spentof which $143,950 as grants$2,381,466 earned by the program92% of program spendingMember benefits and publications: Members are entitled to discounted registration for conferences and interactive access to USENIXs digital magazine, ;login: (the ability to post comments to articles online and receive responses from authors and other members). ;login: features developments in the field of advanced computing systems, editorials, book reviews, and association updates. Back issues are available on the USENIX website.
$371,866 spent$115,728 earned by the program7% of program spendingProceedings and conference recordings: The proceedings, consisting of all academic papers presented at conferences, are published and made available at no charge on the USENIX website after each conference.
$57,750 spent$188 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,407,036.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $7.2M (−32%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of USENIX ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $58k.
8 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 USENIX ASSOCIATION’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
USENIX ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
98% 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 USENIX ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 65% · 2021 54% · 2022 44% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of USENIX ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
98% of USENIX ASSOCIATION'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k 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
USENIX ASSOCIATION receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $466k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding USENIX ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $225k on record.
- National Science Foundation$225k
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 USENIX ASSOCIATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for USENIX ASSOCIATION: 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 USENIX ASSOCIATION?
- USENIX ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,680 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($94,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does USENIX ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $465,680 in grants to USENIX ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USENIX ASSOCIATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $94,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USENIX ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2024), 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