California · Nonprofit
Gravis USA
Gravis USA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,694 to it, the largest being VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION ($444,194). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Gravis USA does
Mission
Our mission is to provide assistance for rural development and poverty alleviation internationally through sustainable interventions, innovative approaches, and direct community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our accomplishments for 2025 include:1. Gravis USA donated $151,000 to GRAVIS, a non-profit organization in India that implements rural development and poverty alleviation projects (such as rainwater harvesting structures, schools, hospitals, etc.)2. Gravis USA was founded to support the mission of GRAVIS. Gravis USA has four U.S.-based board members, none of whom have any current affiliation with GRAVIS. In the past, the head of GRAVIS was a board member for Gravis USA so we could coordinate on projects and funding priorities. 3. The funds donated to GRAVIS were used to implement Gender Equality project. Activities included: Construction of 65 water tanks and 67 farming dykes Renovation of 2 ponds Setting up 65 horticulture units Tree plantation in 12 villages and 3 pasture creation 72 trainings for rural community 12 Medical camps Trainings for rural women (12 trainings attended by 513 women). Repair of 1 school building in Jodhpur District (Rajasthan, India). One-year of living expenses for one visually impaired student in Jodhpur (Rajasthan, India).
$151,087 spentof which $151,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,087.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $157k to $6k (−96%).
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 Gravis USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $161k → $146k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Gravis USA’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
Gravis USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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: 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — broadly stable.
“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
Gravis USA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Gravis USA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Gravis USA
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.
Public support
73%
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 Gravis USA: 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 Gravis USA?
- Gravis USA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,694 to it, the largest being VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION ($444,194). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gravis USA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $475,694 in grants to Gravis USA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gravis USA?
- VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $444,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gravis USA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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