Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CADASTA FOUNDATION
CADASTA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,672,011 to it, the largest being Omidyar Network Fund Inc ($4,013,485). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Cadasta Foundation does
Mission
Cadasta Foundation aims to be the leading provider of technical tools and services to support the documentation of land and resource rights to build stronger, more sustainable communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Partner development and support:the overall success of cadasta's charitable and humanitarian purposes relies on engaging and involving motivated and trusted partner organizations (charitable, academic, civil society, and peoples organizations, governments, and other stakeholders) in order to bring about more efficient, transparent and equitable land governance and tenure security for land holders. Cadasta acts as a facilitator and network partner among stakeholders, enabling the collection, use, and management of data across communities. Geospatial and social data collection and analysis enables relevant sector activities, such as agricultural services, upgrading of informal settlement infrastructure and sustainable management of forests and other natural resources.cadasta enables collection and sharing of land rights data through data portals, dashboards, and storymap tools to support partner and community advocacy and decision-making. Cadasta's esri-based tools enable governments, charities, civil society organizations, peoples organizations, and communities to configure data collection tools and approaches to the needs of a particular community or organization. The cadasta…
$886,072 spentof which $160,956 as grants$13,902 earned by the program44% of program spendingTraining and capacity building program:cadasta delivers training programs on collection and management of land rights data to trainers and partners in the field to ensure that individual users and communities understand land rights information and to encourage responsible stewardship of the data. Trainees include those preparing to be trainers, project leads, platform users, partner organizations, government officials and local data collectors, with an emphasis on building local capacity. Cadasta delivers training to rwandan land officials and field mappers through a co-impact funded project with landesa, and with ugandan officials.the goal of cadasta's training is educational: to teach skills related to collection, documentation, visualization, and management of information related to property, land, and resource rights and to foster open and collaborative communication that cuts across various disciplines and sectors.cadasta's platform provides user guides and training materials through direct partner training. Cadasta also provides remote and onsite training, an online demo environment, and a global metrics dashboard that shares anonymized project and global project data. These…
$753,516 spent$432,256 earned by the program38% of program spendingPlatform and mobile apps for land tenure documentation, formal rights recognition, land and resource monitoring, and data management and storage:cadasta's core activity to further its charitable purposes is our global platform and mobile data collection applications, deployed as easy to use, cost effective and efficient esri-backed tools to record land and resource rights related information. This global platform enables recordation of rights, particularly for those left out of formal land systems. In addition, the platform has the ability to safely and securely store data related to land and resources based on our partner needs. The platform is scalable and secure, ensuring prevention of disclosure of confidential or personally identifiable information.the primary beneficiaries of this work are disadvantaged and underserved communities with inadequate or lack of land tenure security. Cadasta makes the platform available to partners and users in such communities as part of a package that includes system access through log-ins and cadasta training and services. The platform also serves as a repository of related resource data, such as satellite imagery, a living atlas, data layers,…
$365,990 spent$479,670 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,005,578.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $3.7M (+97%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 45% · 2020 42% · 2021 14% · 2022 22% · 2023 50% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of CADASTA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Amy Coughenour Betancourt
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $355k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 CADASTA FOUNDATION’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
CADASTA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 82% · 2022 70% · 2023 56% — 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
CADASTA FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CADASTA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CADASTA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Millennium Challenge Corporation$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CADASTA FOUNDATION
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CADASTA FOUNDATION: 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 CADASTA FOUNDATION?
- CADASTA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,672,011 to it, the largest being Omidyar Network Fund Inc ($4,013,485). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CADASTA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $5,672,011 in grants to CADASTA FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CADASTA FOUNDATION?
- Omidyar Network Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,013,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CADASTA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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