Empowers marginalized communities with technology to defend their rights.
For fiscal year 2020 it reported $1.2M in revenue, $782K in expenses, and $549K in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2020
Total revenue
$1.2M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$782K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$549K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $406K
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
84%
Program services $0.84 Management & general $0.10 Fundraising $0.07
Program efficiency
84%
of spending reaches programs
Operating runway
10.2mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate
Surplus margin
+34%
revenue over expenses, this year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2020 · Form 990
Revenue
$1.2M
FY2020
$2.0M$986K$0
FY2020FY2024
Expenses
$782K
FY2020
$2.0M$1.0M$0
FY2020FY2024
Total assets
$745K
FY2020
$1.6M$811K$0
FY2020FY2024
Total liabilities
$195K
FY2020
$195K$98K$0
FY2020FY2024
Total revenue
$1.2M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$782K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$549K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$406K
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$745K
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B84%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 36
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 46
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $532K of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2020.
01
Direct Work with Partners in the Amazon
Digital Democracy is working with indigenous communities in the Amazon region (including Peru, Ecuador, and Guyana) to support their efforts to gather, manage, and share information about environmental and human rights challenges happening in their communities.
$297Kprogram expense
02
Tool Building
Digital Democracy uses and supports the development of open source mapping and monitoring tools. In 2020 we made MAPEO available for free download on our website, www.digital-democracy.org, to facilitate the creation of indigenous territory maps.
$219Kprogram expense
03
Local to Global Engagement
In 2020, through events, speaking engagements, and presentations, Digital Democracy helped audiences understand the global human rights issues present in our work and the opportunities for local communities to use technology to more effectively advocate for their rights.
Emily Jacobi’s $115K as Codirector
is at the 40th percentile of top reported officer pay among 1169 $1–10M international nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 3 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Emily Jacobi · Reported title Executive Director · Highest reported compensation $79K · Total expenses $782K
10%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $272K · Total expenses $782K
35%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
84%
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Overhead ratio
10%
—
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Fundraising cost ratio
4%
—
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Accounting fee ratio
3%
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Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
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Sources
Every figure above is drawn from these filings
Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2020IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
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