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ASPIRATION

EIN 91-2106274 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2025
$12,569,627
Expenses 2025
$9,764,603

Program services were 86.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S02
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 880264

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To train charitable nonprofits in how to select and use technology in sustainable ways that increase impact; to design and run highly collaborative nonprofit technology events, focused on knowledge sharing and development of peer support networks; and to provide advice, strategy support, tools, and resources to charitable projects and foundations to help them achieve their missions of delivering high-impact technology that can meet the needs of those working for a better world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Aspiration helps nonprofits and foundations use software tools more effectively and sustainably.

  • In 2025, our Strategic Event Services Program facilitated 30 in-person and virtual events and gatherings around the world. These events addressed a wide variety of nonprofit technology issues that affect human rights workers, environmental organizations, internet freedom, and grassroots organizations. Thousands of nonprofit staff, activists, and students representing hundreds of organizations benefited from our interactive, inclusive event format at these gatherings.Our leadership programs in fundraising and digital rights continued to support and mentor emerging nonprofit leaders, helping them to develop strategy and resources to advance their missions. Our Strategic Consulting Program supported and advised nonprofit staff, executives and boards on a variety of technology and strategy issues, including pro bono services for underserved organizations.Our fiscal sponsorship program supported a range of mission-driven technology projects.In November, we also held our 22nd annual Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, California.

    Expenses $8,459,008 · Revenue $11,666,808

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sarah West

    Managing Director

    Total calculated
    $261,700
    From this org
    $231,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,500
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $231,200
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $30,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $261,700

  • Allen Gunn

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $235,500
    From this org
    $205,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,500
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $30,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $235,500

  • Geoffrey MacDougall

    Senior Advisor

    Total calculated
    $208,167
    From this org
    $208,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $208,167
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $208,167

  • Amba Kak

    Exec. Director

    Total calculated
    $206,000
    From this org
    $206,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $206,000

  • Arnold Chandler JR

    Exec. Dir.

    Total calculated
    $170,000
    From this org
    $170,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $170,000

  • Joan Donovan

    Exec. Dir.

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Deborah Farrell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jack Aponte

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chaeny Emanavin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harlo Holmes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Misty Avila

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aman Ahuja

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Camille Ramani

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $12,569,627
    Expenses
    $9,764,603
    Contributions
    $10,553,841
    Grants paid
    $1,792,432
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,803,626
    Expenses
    $9,653,811
    Contributions
    $8,614,384
    Grants paid
    $1,968,600
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,590,023
    Expenses
    $9,303,972
    Contributions
    $7,972,980
    Grants paid
    $1,918,304
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,342,432
    Expenses
    $7,845,417
    Contributions
    $6,935,896
    Grants paid
    $650,452
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,782,014
    Expenses
    $7,742,668
    Contributions
    $6,375,552
    Grants paid
    $673,514
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,843,144
    Expenses
    $9,068,029
    Contributions
    $8,523,821
    Grants paid
    $25,239

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,191,840
    Expenses
    $4,422,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,385,180

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,571,574
    Expenses
    $3,295,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,371,628

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,571,574
    Expenses
    $3,328,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,371,629

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,827,027
    Expenses
    $2,413,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,037,807

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,827,026
    Expenses
    $2,390,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,037,807

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,068,390
    Expenses
    $2,923,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,551,799

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,254,474
    Expenses
    $2,905,620
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,528,002

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,902,383
    Expenses
    $2,258,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,084,801

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,902,383
    Expenses
    $2,258,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,084,801

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,175,638
    Expenses
    $2,308,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,366,527

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • Busy Inc

    $595,890

    2025 Programs

  • Open Web Advocacy Inc

    $252,500

    2025

  • Northwestern University

    $50,000

    2025

  • UC Santa Cruz

    $50,000

    2025

  • Code for Science and Society

    $50,000

    2025

  • Connect Humanity

    $50,000

    2025

  • Exchange Point Institute

    $50,000

    2025

  • Open Source Collective

    $46,427

    2025

  • Open Environmental Data Inc

    $45,005

    2025 Programs

  • Unfurl Futures LLC

    $45,000

    2025

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.