Iowa · Nonprofit
CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC
CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,775 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $138k
What Cafe El Zapote Inc does
Mission
Cafe El Zapote, Inc. shall be operated for charitable and educational purposes and operate as a non-profit with the purpose of improving sustainable farming practices among people in developing countries through outreach assistance including immersion trips and creation of markets for their agricultural products in Iowa and surrounding states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General operations of the organization including sales of imported coffee from Honduras and Uganda. We sell green coffee to local business who roast and sell our coffee as stand alone or part of mixed coffee blends We also sell roasted coffee in the community of coffee.
$116,348 spentof which $90,203 as grants$104,203 earned by the program85% of program spendingEducational and immersion trips to Honduras and/or Uganda. These trips provide cultural exchange, educational opportunities for the participants and our partner farm organizations.
$21,207 spentof which $20,501 as grants15% of program spendingEducational trips to visit Honduras and/or Uganda to visit coffee farmers and our distribution chain.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $137,555.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC.
“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
98% of CAFE EL ZAPOTE 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 $275 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAFE EL ZAPOTE 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.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
1% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC: 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 CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC?
- CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,775 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,775 in grants to CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAFE EL ZAPOTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2025–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing