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AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK

AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,820,068 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($694,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$1.8M
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%

Against its field

AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($508k) Expenses 100 ($280k) Net assets 100 ($228k)2019 Revenue 119 ($606k) Expenses 227 ($635k) Net assets 78 ($177k)2020 Revenue 149 ($757k) Expenses 257 ($719k) Net assets 100 ($228k)2021 Revenue 158 ($801k) Expenses 264 ($738k) Net assets 127 ($291k)2022 Revenue 292 ($1.5M) Expenses 417 ($1.2M) Net assets 248 ($565k)2023 Revenue 363 ($1.8M) Expenses 492 ($1.4M) Net assets 453 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 305 ($1.5M) Expenses 568 ($1.6M) Net assets 435 ($992k)2025 Revenue 343 ($1.7M) Expenses 601 ($1.7M) Net assets 461 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (343)Expenses (601)Net assets (461)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 55% · 2019 90% · 2023 83% · 2024 89% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$228k
18
$30k
19
$38k
20
$63k
21
$318k
22
$469k
23
$43k
24
$59k
25
7.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $175k → $341k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)46% 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 AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK’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

AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK.

38%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 58% · 2022 75% · 2023 35%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

50% of AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $828k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: 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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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 AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK?
AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,820,068 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($694,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,820,068 in grants to AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK?
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $694,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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