Arkansas · Nonprofit
HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL (Arkansas) receives grants from 419 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,604,486 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($35,836,235). 276 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $162M
- Funders on record
- 419
- Grants received
- $108M
- Net assets
- $260M
What Heifer Project International does
Mission
The organization's mission is to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. Working worldwide with marginalized small-scale farmers, heifer provides livestock, seeds and training in sustainable crop production and animal management practices (see schedule o)to increase income and improve nutrition. Focusing also on women's empowerment and social capital, heifer then mobilizes communities of these small-scale farmers into cooperatives and farmer associations to access inclusive market systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International development: sustainable incomes: heifer international provides livestock, agricultural inputs, training and technical support to smallholder farmers as they set up and scale sustainable farming businesses. Farmers practice integrated crop and livestock management to produce healthy, nutritious food, while protecting and improving the environment. Heifer works through local staff and organizations, with each family expected to pass on livestock, knowledge and other assets to families locally, multiplying the gift and strengthening communities and local markets.
$75,509,635 spentof which $64,480,389 as grants67% of program spendingInternational development: education and awareness: heifer international works to educate people of all ages in the united states and globally about the root causes of hunger and poverty, and how they can be part of the solution. Its programs inspire people to take action and raise awareness of the importance of healthy, nutritious, sustainable produced local food.
$33,410,118 spent$765,858 earned by the program30% of program spendingInternational development: agro-ecology: heifer provides gifts of seeds, grains and trees and teaches farmers and families geographically appropriate and resource-sound agricultural practices that enhance and increase crop productivity and are good for the environment. Heifer works with local organizations to increase farmer's access to markets to improve economic benefit and increase personal gain from what they grow. This allows farmers to enhance food security and sovereignty, increase local food options and availability and provide safe and affordable locally grown foods. Heifer's work is guided in its approach by its 12 cornerstones, including passing on the gift, accountability, sharing and caring, gender and family focus, genuine need and justice and full participation. (see schedule o)all contribute to heifer's values-based and holistic approach to giving people a hand up, not a hand out to a better, richer life.
$4,091,342 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $113,011,095.
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 $246M to $329M (+33%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Surita Sandosham
President & chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 132 funders to 175 funders, grant income rose $11M → $18M.
127 of 419 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $28M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Heifer International Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL raised.
From the IRS filings of HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 419 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
HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
82% 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 HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 42% · 2020 35% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 36% — 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
48% of HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
69% of HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL'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 $22M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arkansas, across 44 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 39 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
HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL is better cushioned than half of the 59 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
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 HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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 51 states
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Shared Wealth Ventures LLC · disregarded
- Heifer Project Nepal · exempt
- Adharshila for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation and Welfare · exempt
- Kundamlay Organization · exempt
- Fundacion Heifer Ecuador · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: 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 HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL?
- HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL (Arkansas) receives grants from 419 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,604,486 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($35,836,235). 276 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 419 organizations giving $107,604,486 in grants to HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL, 276 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL?
- MASTERCARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,836,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 419 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