Delaware · Nonprofit
ISSARA INSTITUTE INC
ISSARA INSTITUTE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,975,187 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($2,900,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $512k
What Issara Institute Inc does
Mission
Issara institute is an independent ngo tackling issues of human trafficking and forced labor through data, technology, partnership and innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach and empowerment: issara's worker voice channels continued their expansion - a 24-hour multi-lingual helpline, plus facebook, line, viber, and the issara golden dreams smartphone app, all receiving over 10,000-15,000 calls and messages in some months and reaching over 300,000 total migrant workers in thailand. Issara and civil society partners additionally reach thousands of community members and workers throughout asia.
$541,365 spentof which $319,929 as grants41% of program spendingIssara labs: issara labs conducts a wide range of research and analytics, related to global supply chains as well as migration and trafficking more broadly. Applying human-centered design principles, we conduct in-depth research and develop innovative technologies tapping into and empowering worker voices. Reports available at www.issarainstitute.org.
$252,691 spentof which $149,332 as grants19% of program spendingBusiness and human rights: issara monitors working conditions across supply chains, giving workers linkages to remediation and responses from management on grievances and abuses faced by workers. This information about labor-related risks and abuses is also used to help suppliers strengthen their labor recruitment and management systems.
$532,387 spentof which $314,624 as grants40% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,326,443.
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 $517k to $2.4M (+355%).
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 16% · 2018 9% · 2021 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ISSARA INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Rende Taylor
President/CEO/ed
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $52 → $1.8M.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ISSARA INSTITUTE 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
ISSARA INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
ISSARA INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ISSARA INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ISSARA INSTITUTE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
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 ISSARA INSTITUTE 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 ISSARA INSTITUTE INC?
- ISSARA INSTITUTE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,975,187 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($2,900,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISSARA INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,975,187 in grants to ISSARA INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ISSARA INSTITUTE INC?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISSARA INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 4 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