Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CISPES EDUCATION FUND
CISPES EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,398 to it, the largest being FRANKLIN CONKLIN FOUNDATION ($135,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $782k
- Net assets
- $720k
What Cispes Education Fund does
Mission
Educate the public about developments in El Salvador promote democracy human rights and social justice and accompany grassroots organizations in El Salvador working to advance human rights democracy and equitable and sustainable community development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Human Rights: Defend human rights in El Salvador by activating our emergency response network via email phone and social media mobilizing organizational allies to make public statements and organizing educational events and public demonstrations.
$146,215 spentof which $2,050 as grants$4,802 earned by the program32% of program spendingEducation and Publicity: Produce and publish print and online materials including blogs articles infographics factsheets and newsletters; organize speaking tours presentations webinars and educational forums regarding historical and contemporary developments in El Salvador and U.S. policy in Central America.
$122,888 spent27% of program spendingGrassroots Training and Development: Provide leadership development organizing support and skills trainings to local activists; provide organizing support to allied grassroots organizations to participate in our program activities.
$76,805 spent$258 earned by the program17% of program spendingPolitical Advocacy: Advance and participate in and grassroots advocacy opportunities to promote a humane and peaceful U.S. foreign policy towards El Salvador & Central America and support for human rights labor womens environmental and community organizing.
$65,284 spent14% of program spendingHumanitarian Aid: Identify and spotlight opportunities to support grassroots organizing and community development in El Salvador. Raise and distribute funds for projects carried out by human rights youth labor environmental and community development organizations.
$45,648 spentof which $34,127 as grants10% of program spendingDelegations
$1,786 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $458,626.
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 2024 to 2025, from $378k to $735k (+95%).
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: 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CISPES EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $62k → $113k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CISPES EDUCATION FUND’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
CISPES EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
70% 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 CISPES EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 48% · 2019 34% · 2020 39% · 2021 54% · 2022 31% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CISPES EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
57% of CISPES EDUCATION FUND'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 $338k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $444k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CISPES EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CISPES EDUCATION FUND
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CISPES EDUCATION FUND: 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 CISPES EDUCATION FUND?
- CISPES EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,398 to it, the largest being FRANKLIN CONKLIN FOUNDATION ($135,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CISPES EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $782,398 in grants to CISPES EDUCATION FUND, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CISPES EDUCATION FUND?
- FRANKLIN CONKLIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CISPES EDUCATION FUND 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.
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 22 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