Montana · Nonprofit
CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE
CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE (Montana) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,291,555 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($705,651). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Central Asia Institute does
Mission
To advance education and livelihood skills, especially for girls and women, in the remote and mountainous regions of afghanistan, pakistan and tajikistan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cai supports an array of programs focused on increasing access to quality education, and developing livelihood skills, especially for girls and women. During the period ended september 30, 2025, cai's largest programs as measured by expenses included:1) improving the quality of education by funding teacher salaries, training, and professional development.2) supporting women's economic independence and income generation through women's entrepreneurship and livelihoods training and assistance.3) improving access to safe educational environments including renovating school facilities, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and school boundary walls.
$2,421,852 spentof which $1,985,800 as grants90% of program spendingCai global outreach program:improving access to safe educational environments including renovating school facilities, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and school boundary walls.
$273,567 spent$4,800 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,695,419.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $8.5M (−21%).
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.
73% of CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE’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. 6 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
Alice Thomas
Executive director
Board chair
Javed Khan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $117k → $277k.
14 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 21% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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
40% of CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
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
59% of CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE'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 $945k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: 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 CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE?
- CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE (Montana) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,291,555 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($705,651). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $2,291,555 in grants to CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $705,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 78 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