California · Nonprofit
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Around the World in Eighty Fabrics does
Mission
Atw80f celebrates the global biodiversity of nature-friendly fabrics and elevates the voices of talented textile maker communities who are building a healthier future by reconnecting humanity with our living ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We amplify and share textile solutions to microfiber pollution by amplifying innovative maker textile communities through our social media feed and networks. Exhibits, interactive workshops, public talks and textile tours. We are also writing an illustrated book to be published in 2025 by insight editions entitled fabric: the natural history and future of clothing. We have created a growing teaching collection of textiles that is available to students and researchers both digitally and in person.
$60,355 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,355.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $137k to $48k (−65%).
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.
100% of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Sunny Bates
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $28k → $200k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS’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
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 91% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k 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
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,159 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,159 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS: 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 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS?
- AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $247,500 in grants to AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS 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.
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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 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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