Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC
INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,125,580 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($6,059,823). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Interaction the American Council for Voluntary Int'L Action Inc does
Mission
Interaction is a convener, thought leader, and voice for ngos working to eliminate extreme poverty, strengthen human rights and citizen participation, safeguard a sustainable planet, promote peace, and ensure dignity for all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Federal and non-federal awards: awards from the federal government, foundations, private sector companies, and other partners support interaction's work with its members in several areas: humanitarian action - saving lives, alleviating suffering, and maintaining human dignity without regard for race, ethnicity, religion or political affiliation. Aspects of this work include: current crisis; humanitarian policy; humanitarian practice; ngo security; prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse; protection and shelter for those affected by humanitarian crisis; the transition from relief.
$6,247,192 spent80% of program spendingMember services: interaction has more than 170 member organizations working globally. Members are faith-based and secular, large and small, with a focus on the world's most poor and vulnerable populations. Interaction serves as the largest alliance of u.s. Private voluntary organizations and partners. Members share common commitment that define their work, and interaction works closely with its members, sometimes individually, sometimes in small groups, and sometimes in large groups.
$1,523,079 spent$3,201,543 earned by the program20% of program spendingLegislative activities: in addition to general advocacy as described above, interaction engages in lobbying for particular legislation on a limited scale. This represents time spent on capitol hill meeting with members of congress, or members of their staff, to discuss particular pieces of legislation. These discussions may focus on the language of potential legislation when it is in the drafting stage.
$24,067 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,794,338.
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 $7.6M to $6.2M (−18%).
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 26% · 2018 34% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 37% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 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
Tom Hart
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $221k → $1.3M.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION 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
INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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: 2017 52% · 2018 72% · 2019 84% · 2020 46% · 2021 59% · 2022 67% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.5M on record.
- Agency for International Development$19.3M
- Department of State$134k
- Millennium Challenge Corporation$10k
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 INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION 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 INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC?
- INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,125,580 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($6,059,823). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $11,125,580 in grants to INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,059,823 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 15 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