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New York · Nonprofit
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC (New York) is funded by 3 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $190,401 in grants to it, the largest being JURI LELLEP TRUST XXXXX5001 ($96,969). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,380 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,380 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
4% of ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $17k → $33k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 51% · 2022 54% · 2023 51% · 2024 67% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside New York — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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. view filing