Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACCION INTERNATIONAL
ACCION INTERNATIONAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,791,828 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND ($20,150,494). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $304M
What Accion International does
Mission
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. We find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach large numbers of underserved people and accelerate their growth. We work with our partners to design, test, and deploy affordable digital solutions that strengthen clients' financial health and economic well-being. We conduct in-depth research and share our learnings to advance responsible financial solutions and systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule oglobal programs: today, 1.6 billion people are left out of or poorly served by the world's formal financial sector and lack the financial solutions they need to end poverty in their communities. Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a fair and inclusive economy, helping families and businesses reach their economic potential and build better lives. Our global programs include accion advisory, a team of experts that helps companies provide innovative and affordable financial solutions to small businesses and hard-to-reach customers in emerging markets. It connects local ecosystem actors, harnessing philanthropic capital and the latest technologies to test, improve, and scale responsible financial solutions that enable small business owners and their families to improve their economic well-being. In 2024, accion advisory used its deep technical expertise, local insights, and industry connections to develop market-led solutions for hard-to-reach customers, focusing on areas where it can add maximum value to transform the lives of underserved people globally: digital transformation, embedded finance, women's economic empowerment, agri-finance, and alternative…
$11,573,499 spentof which $2,985,610 as grants$809,967 earned by the program53% of program spendingSee schedule oinvestment strategies: at accion, we know financial services are powerful tools to help reduce poverty and create opportunity. We find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach large numbers of underserved people and accelerate their growth by investing capital and providing strategic governance and advice. We focus on social impact, driving systems-level change. We make equity and quasi-equity investments from pre-seed to growth-stage and prioritize investments in south and southeast asia, latin america, sub-saharan africa, and the united states. In 2024, accion continued to support its partners to digitize and scale operations so they can serve vulnerable clients in a rapidly digitizing world.
$4,531,066 spentof which $724,204 as grants$5,841,960 earned by the program21% of program spendingSee schedule ocenter for financial inclusion: launched in 2008, the center for financial inclusion (cfi) is an independent global think tank housed at accion that uses rigorous research and advocacy to advance inclusive financial systems for low-income people around the world. It leverages partnerships to conduct research, test promising solutions, and then advocate for evidence-based change. Cfi conducts research related to its four strategic priorities: consumer protection, data risks and opportunities, women's financial inclusion, and financial services to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Cfi hosts financial inclusion week, an annual virtual event that in 2024 convened more than 3,000 policy experts, financial service providers, analysts, and industry leaders to discuss the most pressing topics in the inclusive finance sector. In 2024, cfi convened the responsible finance forum (rff) in fortaleza, brazil, bringing together global stakeholders to share ideas, research, and solutions on emerging consumer risks in inclusive finance.
$3,300,007 spent$114,800 earned by the program15% of program spendingEducation and communication: accion's communications focus on the transformative power of financial inclusion to accelerate social and economic progress for underserved communities around the world. In 2024, accion showcased the importance of digital financial solutions for entrepreneurs and innovation through client-focused storytelling, along with papers, toolkits, and case studies promoting ways of better meeting the needs of the 1.6 billion people who are left out or poorly served by the global financial system.
$2,619,372 spentof which $82,860 as grants$588,525 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,023,944.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $386M to $470M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of ACCION INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michael Schlein
CEO
Board chair
Diana Taylor
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 40 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $4.5M → $4.6M.
26 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development). These are real filings, and they are not money ACCION INTERNATIONAL raised.
From the IRS filings of ACCION INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCION INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCION INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 84% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 51% · 2022 66% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of ACCION INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACCION INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCION INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ACCION INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACCION INTERNATIONAL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 15 related entities
- Accion Gateway Fund LLC · disregarded
- Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund Gp LLC · disregarded
- Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund LP LLC · disregarded
- Accion Quona Inclusion Fund Gp LLC · disregarded
- Accion Quona Inclusion Fund LP LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCION INTERNATIONAL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL?
- ACCION INTERNATIONAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,791,828 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND ($20,150,494). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCION INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $46,791,828 in grants to ACCION INTERNATIONAL, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCION INTERNATIONAL?
- MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,150,494 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCION INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 102 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing