Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACTIONAID USA
ACTIONAID USA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,826,990 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($8,191,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Actionaid USA does
Mission
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. Actionaid USA is the u.s. Branch of actionaid international, which works in more than 40 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. We influence u.s. Policy and international institutions like the united nations and elevate marginalized voices in the halls of power.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Women's rights - we advanced women's rights through research, movement-building, and locally-led programming. We supported the publication of the jacaranda paper, an african feminist framework calling for economies rooted in care and justice rather than austerity and extraction. We supported the young urban women project, helping young women build leadership and advance their economic rights and bodily autonomy.
$1,142,227 spentof which $955,000 as grants46% of program spendingHumanitarian emergencies: we delivered urgent humanitarian aid across dozens of countries with a rights-based, locally-led approach. In gaza and the west bank, we reached hundreds of thousands of people with food, health services, water, protection, cash assistance, and shelter despite a near-total aid blockade. We also responded to earthquakes in myanmar and afghanistan as well as conflict-driven displacement in cambodia. Our emergency action fund enabled rapid deployment within the critical first hours of each disaster.
$671,605 spentof which $448,058 as grants27% of program spendingClimate justice: we advanced climate justice through domestic organizing and international advocacy. We hosted our second annual climate reparations camp near new orleans, building a domestic power base for global climate justice. At cop30 in belm, we helped secure a just transition mechanism under the un climate convention. We continued advocacy to capitalize the loss and damage fund and released a report documenting how carbon markets frequently fail to benefit local communities in kenya and liberia.
$514,407 spent21% of program spendingEconomic justice: we supported research and advocacy to challenge injustice in the global financial system, exposing the imbalance between the debt burdens carried by low-income countries and the far greater climate debt owed to them by wealthy nations. Our austerity research documented how budget cuts across africa are pushing frontline public sector workers to the brink. We also advocated at the fourth international conference on financing for development, securing inclusion of special drawing rights reform in the outcome document.
$128,549 spentof which $103,550 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,456,788.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.9M to $6.1M (+55%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACTIONAID USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Niranjali Amerasinghe
Executive director
Board chair
Geoffrey Knox
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income fell $6.7M → $4.5M.
17 of 65 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.
From the IRS filings of ACTIONAID USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
ACTIONAID USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 42% · 2019 47% · 2020 44% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 40% — 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
38% of ACTIONAID USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
ACTIONAID USA draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
ACTIONAID USA is better cushioned than half of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACTIONAID USA
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIONAID USA: 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 ACTIONAID USA?
- ACTIONAID USA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,826,990 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($8,191,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIONAID USA have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $30,826,990 in grants to ACTIONAID USA, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIONAID USA?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,191,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIONAID USA 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 65 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