Michigan · Nonprofit
AKASHINGA INC
AKASHINGA INC (Michigan) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,272,659 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,115,935). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Akashinga Inc does
Mission
Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Akashinga delivers resilient nature conservation programmes of global significance through community-driven partnerships. Our mission is grounded in a principle as simple as it is consequential: when communities, and specifically women in local communities, are given genuine authority over the ecosystems they depend on, they protect them. Not because they have been told to, but because they have a real stake in the outcome.biodiversity loss, climate change, and the erosion of human wellbeing are not parallel crises; they are the same crisis, compounding each other across generations. Africa's wildlife corridors face converging pressures: poaching driven by crime, poverty, and exclusion; habitat loss from agricultural encroachment; and human-wildlife conflict that pits communities against the ecosystems they depend on. Addressing any one of these in isolation is insufficient. Addressing all three together - through the people most affected and most invested - is the only approach with a realistic chance of lasting.conservation has historically been designed for ecosystems, not with communities. External actors arrive, impose rules, and leave. Conservation gains are often difficult…
$7,553,528 spentof which $6,894,921 as grants93% of program spendingLead rangerakashinga's partnership with the lead ranger programme - operating under the name lead conservation, and known previously as ranger campus - strengthens the capacity of conservation organisations to protect nature through training, coaching, and mentoring in field operations, strategic problem solving, and the leadership skills proactive wildlife protection requires. Delivered in partnership with the thin green line foundation, the programme extended mentorship beyond akashinga's own ranger teams to a growing network of partner organisations across east and southern africa.through the first half of 2025, the programme delivered six training courses and mentorships, totalling 1,770 hours of instruction to 84 learners, 32 of them women, across cohorts including the southern african wildlife college, wildlife conservation society india, chewore conservation trust and victoria falls anti-poaching unit, and partner organisations in kenya and indonesia. Curriculum spanned field problem solving, gis-based mapping, and operational readiness. Post-training evaluations found learners applying new skills directly in the field, including life-saving first aid administered during…
$280,758 spentof which $226,887 as grants3% of program spendingEducation and outreachwhile focused primarily on field work and on the ground results, we also seek to educate the public about the important issues of conservation, wildlife protection, and its climate implications, as public opinion and pressure plays an important role in bringing an end to poaching and protecting nature. The uniqueness and success of akashinga generates empathy and media interest.in 2025, akashinga's education and outreach efforts spanned a broad range of channels - including the organisation's website, social media platforms, media coverage, newsletters, and public communications campaigns - to raise awareness of conservation issues and build support among donors, partners, and the general public in the united states and internationally. Akashinga's digital presence continued to grow, with social media content reaching new audiences across multiple platforms and website traffic driven by a combination of organic search, news coverage, and donor communications. The brand & marketing team produced and distributed content highlighting ranger stories, ecological milestones, and community impact, positioning akashinga's model as a compelling alternative to…
$236,436 spent3% of program spendingEnvironmental protection unit (epu)due to the sensitive nature of this work, the environmental protection unit (epu) is a less-publicized programme. Its focus is countering illegal wildlife trade through counter-trafficking investigations, early warning, and incident response. Working with national law enforcement partners, state authorities, and private and ngo stakeholders across zimbabwe and mozambique, the epu maintains sustained pressure on illegal networks to identify, disrupt, and prosecute organised wildlife crime.
$66,881 spentof which $41,783 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,137,603.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $9.9M (+161%).
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.
98% of AKASHINGA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Elizabeth Atherton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $88k → $3.7M.
21 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 AKASHINGA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
AKASHINGA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 AKASHINGA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 30% · 2019 18% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 85% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of AKASHINGA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
84% of AKASHINGA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.7M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
AKASHINGA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AKASHINGA INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AKASHINGA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC?
- AKASHINGA INC (Michigan) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,272,659 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,115,935). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AKASHINGA INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $23,272,659 in grants to AKASHINGA INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKASHINGA INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,115,935 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKASHINGA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 90 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing