Oregon · Nonprofit
APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER
APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $506,975 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($275,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $704k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $507k
- Net assets
- $559k
What Aprovecho Research Center does
Mission
To research, develop and disseminate technological solutions for meeting the basic human needs of low income and impoverished people and communities in third world countries in order to help relieve their suffering, improve health, enhance their safety, and reduce their adverse impacts on their environment. Aprovecho Research Center is especially dedicated to creating effective and widely usable technology solutions to problems such as cooking and heating with biomass. Aprovecho Research Center also provides technical assistance to related appropriate technology projects worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Laboratory testing:Aprovecho Research Center provides testing and design improvement services at its laboratory in cottage grove, oregon. Stoves are shipped to the lab for emissions testing and design improvement.
$10,329 spent$112,240 earned by the program2% of program spendingEmissions monitoring equipment:Aprovecho Research Center designs, develops, prototypes, tests, modifies, and supplies custom emission monitoring equipment for use in lesser-developed and developing countries. Universities, ngos and others use this equipment to measure for multiple pollutants. This testing allows stove designers to modify local stoves to burn less fuel, improve cooking time, and produce less pollutants. Aprovecho continues to help the global alliance for clean cookstoves and others achieve higher cook stove standards.
$277,134 spent$156,285 earned by the program50% of program spendingTraining and evaluation:aprovecho conducts training classes for people wishing to learn how to test, evaluate, improve and monitor bio-mass burning cook stoves and related devices. Thes work is done at the laboratory in cottage grove, or, or at the client's site. Combustion theory, testing procedures and similar subjects are taught. Several hundred more people were taught, primarily in south america, africa and asia.
$187,553 spent$1,600 earned by the program34% of program spendingStove development programs
$83,694 spent$67,720 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $558,710.
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 $405k to $512k (+26%).
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.
52% of APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Nordica Maccarty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $110k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER’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
APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER
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 Oregon
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Asat Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER: 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 APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER?
- APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $506,975 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($275,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $506,975 in grants to APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $275,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APROVECHO RESEARCH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 3 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