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African Diaspora Network

African Diaspora Network (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,018,657 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,117,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$756k
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What African Diaspora Network does

Mission

To harness and engage the intellectual, financial, philanthropic and entrepreneurial capacity of African and friends of Africa in support of economic and social development across Africa and the communities in which we live.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

ADN was an implementing partner to help create communications tools and systems that connect YALI (Young African Leadership Initiative) alumni to the diaspora community for mentorship, internships, and the first YALI Alumni Expo and Trade Show. Arizona State University was the lead contractor on this USAID-funded project and ADN was a subcontractor. The program has since been shutdown.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. ABLE is an enterprise accelerator program designed to strengthen, energize, and support small businesses and nonprofit organizations led by Blacks in the United States. ABLE identifies 15-20 Black business leaders catalyzing an array of sustainable solutions to poverty across multiple sectors at the local and national level. This includes education, healthcare, finance, connectivity, agriculture, and renewable energy, all of which address essential community needs while spurring sustainable growth.

    $396,040 spentof which $160,000 as grants
    38% of program spending
  2. The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) at Arizona State University (ASU) focused on empowering young African leaders through leadership training, networking, and academic coursework. ADN was selected as an implementation partner to create communications tools and systems that connect program alumni to the diaspora community for mentorship.

    $275,501 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. ADIS African Diaspora Investment symposium is an annual global convening that celebrates and champions the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of Africans, Diasporians, and friends of Africa and inspires participants to be agents of change and active contributors to Africa's development.IIF Impact & Innovation Forums is a year round speaker series across Silicon Valley, Washington DC NYC, and virtually with thought-provoking conversations around strategic and consistent diaspora engagement in Africa's future.

    $221,770 spentof which $10,500 as grants
    21% of program spending
  4. BAF Builders of Africas future is a session that celebrates innovation and impact in early-stage African enterprise. BAF serves to showcase and award entrepreneurs who are running early-stage for-profit and non-for-profits that are addressing Africa's unique needs.

    $153,495 spent
    15% of program spending
  5. The African Scientific Community Engagement (ASCE) Program is a partnership with the Gates Foundation to engage African scientists in the diaspora & their peers on the continent with the objective of creating opportunities for connections and partnerships and promote scientific collaborations.

    $5,000 spent
    0% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,051,806.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 122 ($133k) Expenses 92 ($100k) Net assets 199 ($65k)2019 Revenue 281 ($306k) Expenses 176 ($191k) Net assets 550 ($181k)2020 Revenue 367 ($400k) Expenses 295 ($320k) Net assets 795 ($262k)2021 Revenue 679 ($741k) Expenses 447 ($484k) Net assets 1575 ($519k)2022 Revenue 1178 ($1.3M) Expenses 631 ($683k) Net assets 3412 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 1071 ($1.2M) Expenses 1190 ($1.3M) Net assets 3045 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 987 ($1.1M) Expenses 1222 ($1.3M) Net assets 2295 ($756k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (987)Expenses (1222)Net assets (2295)Peer revenue range

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 $539k to $1.1M (+110%).

$33k
$65k
$181k
$262k
$539k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.4M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 33% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of African Diaspora Network’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 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.

$790
’17
$33k
’18
$116k
’19
$81k
’20
$257k
’21
$603k
’22
−$121k
’23
−$247k
’24
11
months of
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

Almaz Negash

CEO

Board chair

Twum Djin

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed888111212
Joined·+0+0+4+2+1
No longer listed·00111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $63k → $947k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Diaspora 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 Diaspora Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

30% 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 Diaspora Network.

37%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 76% · 2020 89% · 2021 38% · 2022 61% · 2023 29% — 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 Diaspora Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

African Diaspora Network draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

WA
IL
MI
CA

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

’19
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $740k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

African Diaspora Network holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding African Diaspora Network receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.

Federal$115k
grants $0contracts $115k
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23
24
Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$100k
  • Millennium Challenge Corporation$15k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 16%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

55%

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 Diaspora 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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Questions and answers

Who funds African Diaspora Network?
African Diaspora Network (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,018,657 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,117,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does African Diaspora Network have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $3,018,657 in grants to African Diaspora Network, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of African Diaspora Network?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,117,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like African Diaspora 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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