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DROPBOX FOUNDATION

EIN 81-4755668 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,039,700
Expenses 2024
$1,261,422

Program services were 99.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
120 BROADWAY STE 3475

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 · 2024

Mission

THE DROPBOX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATIONS THAT DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD. (CONT SCH O)DCF PROVIDES UNRESTRICTED GRANTS, AND TO MAKE THAT FUNDING GO FURTHER, WE MATCH ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS TO THE CAPABILITIES OF DROPBOX EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE PARTNER WITH IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATIONS TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD.

  • THE DROPBOX FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATIONS THAT DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD. WE PROVIDE UNRESTRICTED GRANTS - AND TO MAKE THAT FUNDING GO FURTHER, WE MATCH ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS TO THE CAPABILITIES OF DROPBOX EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERS.WE'RE BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR GRANTEE PARTNERS BASED ON TRUST. THE DROPBOX FOUNDATION CONNECTS THESE PARTNERS TO EACH OTHER SO THEY CAN SHARE THE VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE THEY'VE GATHERED OVER THE YEARS. MUTUAL RESPECT AND A SHARED PASSION FOR DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS GUIDE EVERYTHING WE DO.

    Expenses $1,253,387 · Grants $1,078,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BART VOLKMER - PRESIDENT

    DIRECTOR & CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • AMBER COTTLE - DIRECTOR HEAD

    OF GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY & GOVT AFF.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SAMAN ASHEER

    VP OF COMMUNICATIONS & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GREGORY RATLIFF

    DIRECTOR (THRU 08/2024)

    Total calculated
    $513,860
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $472,973
    Other
    $40,887
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $409,750 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $63,223 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $27,732 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $13,155 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $513,860 related

  • NICHOLAS HODGES

    TREASURER & DIRECTOR (THRU 08/2024)

    Total calculated
    $686,667
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $629,197
    Other
    $57,470
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $334,886 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $69,722 related
    Other
    $0 + $224,589 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $30,150 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $27,320 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $686,667 related

  • SHERMANE BILAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $203,293
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $172,292
    Other
    $31,001
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $160,232 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $12,060 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $15,429 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $15,572 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $203,293 related

  • HEATHER GRADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $394,382
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $341,073
    Other
    $53,309
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $301,530 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $39,543 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $26,859 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,450 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $394,382 related

  • HILARY CASTILLO

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 09/24 & THRU 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $314,629
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $287,738
    Other
    $26,891
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $217,738 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $70,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $19,989 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $6,902 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $314,629 related

  • CATHERINE CRYSTAL FOSTER

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 09/24 & THRU 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $416,262
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $351,968
    Other
    $64,294
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $290,911 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $38,288 related
    Other
    $0 + $22,769 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,180 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $35,114 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $416,262 related

  • TINA LEE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,039,700
    Expenses
    $1,261,422
    Contributions
    $200
    Grants paid
    $1,078,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,108,525
    Expenses
    $1,661,651
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $1,475,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $461,434
    Expenses
    $1,767,321
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $1,600,000

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
    $2,438,409
    Expenses
    $1,594,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,298,058

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $922,182
    Expenses
    $1,466,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,589,984

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,160,040
    Expenses
    $1,162,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,580,765

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $750
    Expenses
    $800,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,196,551

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,849,760
    Expenses
    $206,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,568,843

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,675,267
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,675,267

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

  • ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS EUROPE

    C · CONSULTING · UK

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 SO.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.