California · Nonprofit
DIR BIYABIR
DIR BIYABIR (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,429 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($99,815). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $107k
What Dir Biyabir does
Mission
To alleviate extreme poverty in Ethiopia by investing in people and developing their ability to help themselves by funding sustainable grass-roots community projects that develop new skills in people and then leverage these skills in entrepreneurial opportunities that generate income while preserving and protecting the natural environment and biodiversity of the communities. Dir Biyabir is incorporated and registered as a charitable organization in the state of California. Dir Biyabir also funds emergency relief for civilians in Ethiopia affected by famine war and epidemics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The N.Shewa Biruh Aemro Scholarship provides funding to purchase blankets sheets and other college dorm necessities for top graduating rural high school students in N. Shewa Ethiopia. A new batch of students is added every year. It also provides a monthly stipend for each student as well as a laptop computer. The number of students in the program increases every year in 2025 there were 37 students in the program
$26,951 spentof which $26,931 as grants16% of program spendingBugna Emergency Relief project provided emergency relief for civilians facing famine in the wereda district of Bugna in North Wello Zone Ethiopia. It had 2 phases in Phase 1 emergency food as well as emergency veterinary medicine for cattle was funded. In phase 2 teff and wheat seeds were provided to her farmers get back on their feet and grow their own food. 4,712 people received emergency food aid and 1,387 households received seeds for planting
$81,233 spentof which $81,213 as grants50% of program spendingThe Debre Birhan area school rehabilitation and re-stocking was a project to rehabilitate schools damaged by conflict in N Shewa as well as to support students returning to school after 2 years of school closure. This project has multiple phases. In phase 1 key stationary items were distributed to 2,681 students basic school repair was also completed. In phase 2 uniforms were distributed to 200 of the neediest children
$45,220 spentof which $45,200 as grants28% of program spendingSchool girl sponsorship program: this project provides funding for underprivileged girls to attend elementary school high schools and college. funding provided for buying stationary and other necessities . 204 children benefited in 2025
$4,081 spentof which $4,061 as grants2% of program spendingPartner Operating Expense: this project provided funding to supplement the salaries of the staff of our project implementation partner in Ethiopia. The salaries were so low that some staff members were forced to find other jobs. With the salary raise from this funding the key staff were retained. 6 staff members benefitted from this project
$5,884 spentof which $5,864 as grants4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $163,369.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $59k to $108k (+83%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Haeran Fisseha
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $18k → $13k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 DIR BIYABIR’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
DIR BIYABIR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 DIR BIYABIR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 79% · 2023 53% — 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
20% of DIR BIYABIR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
96% of DIR BIYABIR'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like DIR BIYABIR
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.
Public support
86%
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 DIR BIYABIR: 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 DIR BIYABIR?
- DIR BIYABIR (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,429 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($99,815). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DIR BIYABIR have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $236,429 in grants to DIR BIYABIR, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIR BIYABIR?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $99,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIR BIYABIR 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 10 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