Virginia · Nonprofit
ESPWA FOUNDATION
ESPWA FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,489 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($22,444). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Espwa Foundation does
Mission
The ESPWA Foundation is a religious non-profit that was incorporated in the state of Virginia on September 8 2010. ESPWA means hope in Haitian Creole. ESPWA exists to develop projects that empower the people of Haiti alleviate poverty build relationships and ultimately encourage hope through Christs love. Weoperate on a project-by-project basis. During 2025 we were able to: support a clinic and a hospital with monetary and people resources; fund clean water initiatives provide sponsorship and direct funds to families; pay for school tuition for children; provide support to a pastor and his ministry; sponsor a childrens vacation Bible school; and provide educational funding to individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support children through family sponsorships direct assistance education payments and a summer vacation Bible school.
$31,414 spentof which $31,414 as grants53% of program spendingSupport for a pastor and his Christian ministry and outreach.
$13,400 spentof which $13,400 as grants23% of program spendingVarious operational services as well as support for advanced education.
$10,950 spentof which $10,950 as grants18% of program spendingProvide medical personnel supplies and equipment to support a free clinic and a hospital.
$1,900 spentof which $1,900 as grants3% of program spendingSupport clean water initiatives.
$1,600 spentof which $1,600 as grants3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,264.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $67k to $37k (−45%).
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.
100% of ESPWA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Christopher Pfeiffer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $82.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 ESPWA FOUNDATION’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
ESPWA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ESPWA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
ESPWA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ESPWA FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ESPWA FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESPWA FOUNDATION: 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 ESPWA FOUNDATION?
- ESPWA FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,489 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($22,444). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESPWA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,489 in grants to ESPWA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESPWA FOUNDATION?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESPWA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 4 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