Michigan · Nonprofit
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
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
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 grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $499,322.
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 2022 to 2023, from $319k to $663k (+108%).
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.
98% of KASIISI PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Zarin Machanda
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
KASIISI PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KASIISI PROJECT 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kibale Forest School's Program · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KASIISI PROJECT 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 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?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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