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KASIISI PROJECT INC

KASIISI PROJECT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,367 to it, the largest being THE WHITE CEDAR FUND FORMERLY NOLEN BRADLEY FAMILY FUND ($420,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$785k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$721k
13/20 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Kasiisi Project Inc does

Mission

To conserve african forests through programs for african children and their communities that provide education and healthcare and care for the environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide funds to the kibale forest school's program (kfsp), formerly afrokaps. Kfsp is a ugandan company limited by guarantee and a registered non-governmental organization. Richard wrangham and elizabeth ross are directors for both kasiisi project and kfsp. Kfsp provides funding to assist in the operation and maintenance of more than 16 ugandan government funded primary schools located within 5 kilometers of the boundary of kibale national park, uganda. It provides healthcare, education and conservation outreach to cover 8,000 children and their families and communities.

    $499,322 spentof which $462,166 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $499,322.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($254k) Expenses 100 ($265k) Net assets -70 ($-45999)2018 Revenue 144 ($366k) Expenses 96 ($254k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2020 Revenue 9 ($23k) Expenses 31 ($82k) Net assets 313 ($206k)2021 Revenue 142 ($362k) Expenses 108 ($287k) Net assets 426 ($280k)2022 Revenue 198 ($504k) Expenses 176 ($466k) Net assets 484 ($319k)2023 Revenue 272 ($691k) Expenses 175 ($463k) Net assets 830 ($547k)2024 Revenue 245 ($624k) Expenses 174 ($462k) Net assets 1001 ($659k)2025 Revenue 309 ($785k) Expenses 233 ($620k) Net assets 1094 ($721k)
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Revenue (309)Expenses (233)Net assets (1094)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $319k to $663k (+108%).

$112k
$224k
$206k
$280k
$319k
$663k
$660k
$760k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of KASIISI PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
$112k
’18
−$59k
’20
$74k
’21
$38k
’22
$228k
’23
$162k
’24
$165k
’25
14
months of
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.

Board chair

Zarin Machanda

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed558888910
Joined·+0·+0+1+1+1+2
No longer listed·0·01101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $81k → $230k.

9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 KASIISI PROJECT 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

KASIISI PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

37% 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 KASIISI PROJECT INC.

27%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 30% · 2019 32% · 2020 54% · 2021 42% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — 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

40% of KASIISI PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

KASIISI PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states in all.

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MA
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $439k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KASIISI PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve14.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like KASIISI PROJECT INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 8%Fundraising 11%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Kibale Forest School's Program · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KASIISI PROJECT INC?
KASIISI PROJECT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,367 to it, the largest being THE WHITE CEDAR FUND FORMERLY NOLEN BRADLEY FAMILY FUND ($420,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KASIISI PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,541,367 in grants to KASIISI PROJECT INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KASIISI PROJECT INC?
THE WHITE CEDAR FUND FORMERLY NOLEN BRADLEY FAMILY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KASIISI PROJECT INC find more funders?
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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 20 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