California · Nonprofit
Global Partners For Development
Global Partners For Development (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,361,153 to it, the largest being ROCK PAPER SCISSORS FOUNDATION INC ($540,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $648k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $316k
What Global Partners For Development does
Mission
GPFDs mission is to advance community-led initiatives that improve education and public health in East Africa. We envision a world in which every East African community has the capacity to implement dynamic, sustainable solutions to the challenges they face.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Driven Education (CDE) - Education is vital in the fight against poverty. In collaboration with local leaders who identify the schools with the highestneed, and the projects within the schools. In Kenya, over seven local schools have benefitted from constructed classrooms, latrines(toilets}, and in a school forstudents with physical challenges paved walkways to facilitate wheelchair access. In Tanzania,GPFD partnered with Genesis Community Fdn to advance education togirls and women in the community by expanding transportation services to and from school. In Uganda, GPFD partnered with Madaraja Foundation to support girlsand women to access essentail sexual reproductive health information and services.
$299,181 spentof which $299,152 as grants53% of program spendingGrassroots Community Led Development that is in support of grassroots organizations in East Africa. These organizations led by the local communities understandthe strengths and needs of the people they serve. In Burundi, GPFD supported the Menya Accelerator, a non-profit education-centered initiative whose goal is toprovide high-quality education to youth enrolled in formal education institutions. In Tanzania, GPFD collaborated with the community in Arkaria and organized alarge-scale tree planting campaign to combat the effects of climate change on the local environment. In Kenya, the Homa Bay Blue Print project is in response tothe pollution at Lake Victoria. The lake is a resource to the community and home to a varietal of fauna and flora. Using technology GPFD in partnership with theKenyan Government & others are turning waste into clean energy, water and fertilizer
$242,337 spentof which $71,258 as grants43% of program spendingWater Projects - In a unique partnership between Sonoma County wine industry and the East African communities, the Vineyards to Villages initiative funds cleanwater infrastructure, sanitation facilities and hygiene education,address the environmental, economic, and social justice challenges impacting their communities.In Kenya, GPFD financially supported the Turkana Women's Group in a water project that improved water access for communities and livestock.
$23,585 spentof which $23,060 as grants4% of program spendingWater Projects - In a unique partnership between Sonoma County wine industry and the East African communities, the Vineyards to Villages initiative funds cleanwater infrastructure, sanitation facilities and hygiene education,address the environmental, economic, and social justice challenges impacting their communities.In Kenya, GPFD financially supported the Turkana Women's Group in a water project that improved water access for communities and livestock.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $565,103.
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 $683k to $1.0M (+53%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Global Partners For Development’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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $56k → $427k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Partners For Development’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
Global Partners For Development has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 Partners For Development.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 48% · 2020 39% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% — 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
25% of Global Partners For Development's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
51% of Global Partners For Development'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Partners For Development's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Global Partners For Development
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Global Partners For Development: 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 Partners For Development?
- Global Partners For Development (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,361,153 to it, the largest being ROCK PAPER SCISSORS FOUNDATION INC ($540,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Global Partners For Development have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,361,153 in grants to Global Partners For Development, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Global Partners For Development?
- ROCK PAPER SCISSORS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Global Partners For Development find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 25 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