Datakind Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464082076
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175803005
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,931,317
- Expenses
- $7,005,078
- Assets
- $20,543,754
- Liabilities
- $191,367
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAUREN WOODMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- LAUREN WOODMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $241,500 total reported compensation
- CAITLIN AUGUSTIN (VP, PRODUCT & PROGRAMS): $234,372 total reported compensation
- JOHN HARNISHER (SR. DIR, PRODUCT AND PROGRAMS): $227,265 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Datakind tackles the world's toughest challenges with data science and ai to improve the capabilities, reach, and scale of social impact organizations.
What it reported doing in 2024
From hackathon-style events to years-long capacity-building engagements, datakind builds new tools to address old and intractable problems and brings emerging data scientists into the data-for-good movement by showing them how valuable their skills can be.our projects range from increasing speed and efficiency of food aid distribution to building fairer systems to establish credit worthiness. Datakind works to close the gap between what data science can provide, and who has access to it.datakind has a global network of 30,000+ data scientists and supporters and has worked with more than 300 nonprofit organizations and direct service providers. We work closely with them to build curated tools to meet their needs, while raising their data maturity level so they can use these tools effectively.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.7%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $93.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.1%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.93; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.7% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 14 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.