Colorado · Nonprofit
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,582,765 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($530,450). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $826k
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $796k
What Global Livingston Institute does
Mission
The mission of Global Livingston Institute is to educate students and community leaders on innovative approaches to international development and empower awareness, collaboration, conversations and personal growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, gli worked in three major programming areas: global classrooms, public health, and grassroots community initiatives. With the global classrooms program, gli engaged 129 high school and university students in virtual and in-person programming designed to foster cultural exchange and teach best practices in community development. Gli public health programs connected thousands of individuals in uganda with health care services-namely, hiv and non-communicable disease (ncd) services-and raised awareness for various health causes throughout uganda. Gli grassroots community initiatives involved programs related to recycling and the environment, water safety, education, and more. Through gli's recycling centers in uganda, gli helped facilitate the removal of dozens of tons of plastic from the environment.
$972,893 spentof which $69,251 as grants$392,168 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $972,893.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $833k (−35%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2023 29% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Mccarthy
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $300k → $379k.
16 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 39% · 2019 34% · 2020 15% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 16% — 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
44% of GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
56% of GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $260k on record.
- Department of State$260k
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 GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Resort 29 · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE: 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 GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE?
- GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,582,765 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($530,450). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,582,765 in grants to GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $530,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 48 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