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Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc

Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,713,184 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,373,199). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$985k
14/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc does

Mission

To improve educational opportunities for the underserved population of Northern Kenya.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The mission of The KURA Project is to improve educational opportunities for the underserved population of Northern Kenya.

    $1,976,724 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,976,724.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($499k) Expenses 100 ($464k) Net assets 100 ($294k)2021 Revenue 235 ($1.2M) Expenses 198 ($920k) Net assets 187 ($548k)2022 Revenue 331 ($1.7M) Expenses 347 ($1.6M) Net assets 201 ($591k)2023 Revenue 399 ($2.0M) Expenses 449 ($2.1M) Net assets 170 ($499k)2024 Revenue 454 ($2.3M) Expenses 464 ($2.2M) Net assets 208 ($611k)2025 Revenue 472 ($2.4M) Expenses 428 ($2.0M) Net assets 335 ($985k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (472)Expenses (428)Net assets (335)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 2024 to 2025, from $621k to $985k (+58%).

$294k
$548k
$591k
$504k
$621k
$985k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’20
$254k
’21
$44k
’22
−$92k
’23
$112k
’24
$368k
’25
5.3
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

Ellen Leeds

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed771011912
Joined·+2+4+1+1+3
No longer listed·21030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $158k → $847k.

6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura 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

Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc.

37%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 95% · 2020 75% · 2021 44% · 2022 52% · 2023 39% — 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

80% of Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

53% of Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 12 states.

VT
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
TX
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
58%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VT

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc?
Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,713,184 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,373,199). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,713,184 in grants to Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,373,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 25 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