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KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT

KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,462 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($96,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$48k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$183k
Net assets
$99k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Kenya Self-Help Project does

Mission

High school scholarships and university support

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. High School scholarships and university support for 37 students

    $0 spentof which $43,727 as grants

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2022 Revenue 340 ($248k) Expenses 186 ($153k) Net assets 475 ($120k)2023 Revenue 93 ($68k) Expenses 108 ($89k) Net assets 390 ($98k)2024 Revenue 86 ($63k) Expenses 71 ($59k) Net assets 407 ($103k)2025 Revenue 65 ($48k) Expenses 63 ($51k) Net assets 392 ($99k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (65)Expenses (63)Net assets (392)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 2021 to 2022, from $25k to $120k (+375%).

$25k
$120k
$98k
$103k
$99k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’21
$95k
’22
−$21k
’23
$4k
’24
−$4k
’25
9.4
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.

Chief executive

Kathleen Dodge

Executive Director

Board chair

Sarah Forrester

Board Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $10k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SELF-HELP PROJECT’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 SELF-HELP PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 SELF-HELP PROJECT.

52%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

73% of KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states.

VT
IL
SC

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

’17
’18
’20
’22
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT's revenue fell 35% between 2021 and 2025.

Operating margin−8% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT: 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 KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT?
KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,462 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($96,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $183,462 in grants to KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENYA SELF-HELP PROJECT 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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