Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACELI AFRICA INC
ACELI AFRICA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600,644 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,500,644). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ACELI AFRICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Sall Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Mastercard Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation)shared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 28% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ACELI AFRICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $600k → $751k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Global Development Incubator Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACELI AFRICA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACELI AFRICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ACELI AFRICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ACELI AFRICA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Sall Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNC · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mastercard Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchbacks 8 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation)shared fundersCA · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Acumen Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clear Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Digital Harbor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Follow Your Dream Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luminate Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nommontu Foundation Inc Fka Marisa Muller Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keith V Kiernan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Godley Family Foundationshared fundersRI · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ACELI AFRICA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- The Global Development Incubator Inc · exempt
- Gdi Solutions Inc · exempt
- Isf Advisors Inc · exempt
- Colibri Catalyst Inc · exempt
- Aceli Africa Company Limited - Rwanda · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACELI AFRICA INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACELI AFRICA INC?
- ACELI AFRICA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600,644 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,500,644). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACELI AFRICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,600,644 in grants to ACELI AFRICA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACELI AFRICA INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACELI AFRICA INC 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing