New York · Nonprofit
GISA INC
GISA INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,013 to it, the largest being PACT INC ($1,119,636). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $564k
What Gisa Inc does
Mission
Gisa is a global non profit organizaiton dedicated to building the future of media with independent journalists, artists and entrepreneurs working in closed societies through production, open source innovation, research, learning and communication building.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic Engagement and Culture: Objective: To provide opportunities for revolutionary youth to shape the future of Sudan and continue the spirit of the revolution that brought change for everyone In 2022, Gisa Group provided project management and design support to the Civic labs network, as well as fundraising and facilitation of this with donors, to help them build more resilient communities that can keep their government accountable and advocate for their rights and needs.
$1,338,485 spent60% of program spendingMedia Development: Objective: To guarantee access for Sudanese to important information and journalism in order to hold the powerful to account. The media development program at Gisa is dedicated to empowering individuals and communities in Sudan and East Africa through the transformative power of media. Our program aims to foster independent journalism, promote freedom of expression, and enhance media literacy in the region. Through a variety of partnerships, Gisa has provided training, resources, and support to local journalists, citizen reporters, and civil society organizations. In addition to capacity building efforts, Gisa is home to Ayin Network, which is Sudan's premiere visual and investigative journalism outlet. Starting in 2013 Ayin has covered Sudan's trials and tribulations, with a focus on being the leading primary source of the conditions that have faced the Sudanese peoples. Recognizing the importance of community engagement in shaping narratives and promoting social change, our program encourages citizen participation by covering community initiatives and responses, as well as grassroots social and cultural initiatives. We strive to amplify marginalized voices and…
$635,818 spent29% of program spendingCollaborative Futures: Objective: To incubate new ideas, and build tools and technology to support Gisa Group and our partners around the world. In 2022, the SHOUT APP was completed and tested in different countries between September and October. SHOUT is a simple mobile phone application that can transfer data files using voice telephony during a shutdown. The 1st version of APP is operational but privately available. We are redesigning the APP and making a completely different version of the APP. Via our Al Kashif project, we provide pro-democracy groups with access to resources so they can preempt and fight back against disinformation targeting the pro-democracy movement in Sudan. The team finalized an online course to train Civil Society Organizations to counter disinformation and uploaded it to the newly developed learning management system. The link to the LMS is here: https://alkashif.net/lms/login/index.php. The team also finalized an online collaborative space, named the Al-Kashif community (https://community.alkashif.net/login/), and is designed to facilitate collaboration and network-building activities among CSOs and other members of civil society. Initiated…
$128,183 spent6% of program spendingAccess to Justice: Objective: To build sustainable platforms and projects that support Sudans emerging civil society achieve justice for human right and other issues. Sudanese Archive continued open source data monitoring and collecting and published 2 investigations on Violence in Khartoum on January 17, 2022 anti-coup protest and Patterns of violence against protesters in the year since Sudan's coup. Human Rights Hub worked in collaboration with 2 key partners (PEJ and Climate Counsel) to provide capacity building support in the form of e-learning material developed and added to our ATJ e-learning academy, roundtables and mentorship, for 4 Sudanese human rights defender groups. Key focus was on strengthening the capacity for Human Rights Documentation in general, transitional justice, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, best practices for legal documentation of human rights violations and human violations affecting the environment. In the last quarter of 2022, the team coordinated a trip to Europe for 4 Sudanese human rights defender groups to engage with international institutions and actors working on human rights issues in Sudan. This laid the…
$126,281 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,228,767.
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 $389k to $1.0M (+158%).
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 100% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GISA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $110k → $295k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GISA INC’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
GISA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 GISA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 43% · 2020 45% · 2021 65% · 2022 94% · 2023 73% — 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
14% of GISA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
GISA INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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.
Against its field
GISA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GISA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $111 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $111
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 GISA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 GISA 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 GISA INC?
- GISA INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,013 to it, the largest being PACT INC ($1,119,636). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GISA INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,205,013 in grants to GISA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GISA INC?
- PACT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,119,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GISA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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