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AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC

AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,785,694 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,365,500). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
121
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$2.8M
52/121 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Amigos of Costa Rica Inc does

Mission

Connect global resources to costa rican organizations. Amigos of costa rica will act as the key facilitator to nurture the unique ecosystem of individuals, ngos, and corporations who wish to engage organizations within costa rica focused on making a lasting impact.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Amigos of costa rica contributes to the wellbeing of costa rica by connecting donors with vetted nonprofit solutions. Amigos of costa rica works with over 110 nonprofits around costa rica, increasing their visibility and capacity to receive international funding. Amigos of costa rica also provides donors with guidance on the most effective ways to meet their goals.

    $9,868,226 spentof which $9,704,087 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,868,226.

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 ($742k) Expenses 100 ($667k) Net assets 100 ($110k)2018 Revenue 192 ($1.4M) Expenses 164 ($1.1M) Net assets 398 ($436k)2019 Revenue 580 ($4.3M) Expenses 704 ($4.7M) Net assets 41 ($45k)2020 Revenue 618 ($4.6M) Expenses 651 ($4.3M) Net assets 261 ($286k)2021 Revenue 729 ($5.4M) Expenses 817 ($5.4M) Net assets 220 ($241k)2022 Revenue 634 ($4.7M) Expenses 671 ($4.5M) Net assets 1080 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 1019 ($7.6M) Expenses 1062 ($7.1M) Net assets 1514 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 1621 ($12M) Expenses 1776 ($12M) Net assets 1686 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 1514 ($11M) Expenses 1540 ($10M) Net assets 2563 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (1514)Expenses (1540)Net assets (2563)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $2.8M (+52%).

$124k
$437k
$49k
$286k
$958k
$1.2M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.8M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 391 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
’17
$326k
’18
−$391k
’19
$242k
’20
−$45k
’21
$231k
’22
$475k
’23
$182k
’24
$958k
’25
2.0
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.

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Listed6788914141010
Joined·+3+3+1+4+6+4+1+2
No longer listed·22131452
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $44k → $3.1M.

28 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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

AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

59% 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 AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC.

25%
largest funder
39%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 50% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 11% · 2023 22% — 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

37% of AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

58% of AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA 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 $7.5M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 32 states.

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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

AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)40% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 44 states

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC?
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,785,694 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($4,365,500). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC have?
IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $17,785,694 in grants to AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $4,365,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 121 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