Cross Border Data Forum Inc
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What it says it does
The mission of CBDF is to provide a forum for well-researched and well-written discussion of cross-border data issues.
- Income
- $826,000
- Spending
- $940,476
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 5
- Highest pay
- $15,000, president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $918,541 spent. The Cross Border Data Forum works to promote and achieve four key goals: (1) Fulfill legitimate government requests for content, associated meta-data, and user-identifying information, notably for law enforcement and national security purposes; (2) Protect and promote privacy, cybersecurity, human rights, and democracy as essential to new legal approaches and the confidentiality, integrity and availability of communications and other sensitive personal data; (3) Provide a workable regime for private-sector actors that process data from multiple jurisdictions. Efforts to promote national or supranational data sovereignty should address conflicts of law and other issues that arise when multiple governments claim jurisdiction over user data and private-sector actors and their services; and (4) Facilitate robust cross-border flows of data in order to further the purposes listed in Goal 2 and other relevant purposes such as economic growth and the appropriate development of artificial intelligence. In 2025, the Cross Border Data Forum worked to promote and achieve these goals through the publication of scholarship and promotion of dialogue regarding the design, implementation, and reform of legal regimes that impact cross-border transfers. This included publication of more than a dozen articles on relevant topics and engaged in discussion and analysis of those and related topics at conferences across the globe. The archive for articles from 2025 can be found at www.crossborderdataforum.org/article-archive/.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since April 2019.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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