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AMPLIO NETWORK

AMPLIO NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,487,193 to it, the largest being VOLO FOUNDATION ($2,700,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$715k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
$0
10/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Amplio Network does

Mission

Our mission is to empower the world's most vulnerable communities through knowledge sharing.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Our inclusive digital technology enables governments and global development organizations to amplify their reach and impact in developing countries. With our rugged amplio talking book audio device, ngos can share hours of local language content with lowliterate people in rural remote, offgrid communities. Since 2007, talking book programs and partnerships have reached over 1,000,000 people in african countries, empowering people with access to information they can use to improve their lives and livelihoods.

    $590,349 spentof which $252,751 as grants$15,449 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $590,349.

02The 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($985k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($449k)2019 Revenue 175 ($1.7M) Expenses 85 ($924k) Net assets 277 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 80 ($787k) Expenses 130 ($1.4M) Net assets 140 ($630k)2021 Revenue 113 ($1.1M) Expenses 118 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($471k)2022 Revenue 94 ($929k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 71 ($317k)2023 Revenue 96 ($943k) Expenses 104 ($1.1M) Net assets 30 ($136k)2024 Revenue 73 ($715k) Expenses 77 ($835k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (73)Expenses (77)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $463k to $1.3M (+174%).

$463k
$1.3M
$862k
$777k
$584k
$367k
$0
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 19% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$96k
’18
$796k
’19
−$615k
’20
−$160k
’21
−$154k
’22
−$181k
’23
−$120k
’24
1.1
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.

Board chair

Christine Chew

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed11111014161614
Joined·+1+1+6+5+2+0
No longer listed·122322
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $334k → $635k.

8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 AMPLIO 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

AMPLIO NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

34% 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 AMPLIO NETWORK.

60%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 94% · 2019 73% · 2020 81% · 2021 77% · 2022 80% · 2023 47% — 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

56% of AMPLIO NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

AMPLIO NETWORK draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.

WA
NY
CA
VA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Organizations like AMPLIO NETWORK

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

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMPLIO 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 AMPLIO NETWORK?
AMPLIO NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,487,193 to it, the largest being VOLO FOUNDATION ($2,700,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMPLIO NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $4,487,193 in grants to AMPLIO NETWORK, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMPLIO NETWORK?
VOLO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMPLIO NETWORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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