Florida · Nonprofit
ECHO Inc
ECHO Inc (Florida) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,944,146 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,052,950). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $667k
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What ECHO Inc does
Mission
Providing training, knowledge resources, networking and seeds to development workers in over 170 countries enabling them to support improved nutrition and livelihood for small-scale farmers and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ECHO is continuing to build a knowledge base of agricultural practices and appropriate technologies and then deliver this knowledge to development workers around the globe to reduce hunger and improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers. This work involves field and literature research, extensive networking with development practitioners, seed production and testing, writing and translating knowledge resources, providing training and supporting a growing network of members who access ECHO resources from over 170 countries each month. The thousands of users and hundreds of organizations who utilize ECHO resources regularly evaluate the usefulness and impact of these resources and the effectiveness of their delivery.
$721,145 spent$582,914 earned by the program61% of program spendingIn order to move its knowledge resource development and dissemination activities closer to small-scale farmers around the world, ECHO operates Regional Impact Centers/Teams in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and West Africa and are intending to move into Latin America (CAC RIC). These Impact Centers focus on practices, knowledge, seeds, trainings, research and networking that are most beneficial to small-scale farmers and development workers in the respective regions. The work of the Regional Impact Centers/Teams is heavily supported by ECHO's U.S.-based activities identified in 4a above. ECHO's regional resources and trainings are regularly evaluated by practitioners throughout the regions.
$468,215 spent$84,216 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,189,360.
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 $4.9M to $6.9M (+42%).
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 1% · 2018 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of ECHO Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Abram Bicksler
President & CEO
Board chair
Mark Carlson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $758k → $1.1M.
24 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 ECHO Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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
ECHO Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 ECHO Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2022 47% · 2023 37% — 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
59% of ECHO Inc'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
67% of ECHO 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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
ECHO Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ECHO Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $123 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $85
- FEES-GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $38
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 ECHO 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECHO 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 ECHO Inc?
- ECHO Inc (Florida) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,944,146 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,052,950). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ECHO Inc have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $9,944,146 in grants to ECHO Inc, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECHO Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,052,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECHO Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 96 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