California · Nonprofit
KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC
KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,535,573 to it, the largest being GREATER IMPACT FOUNDATION ($2,525,600). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Kickstart International Inc does
Mission
To enable millions of people to climb out of poverty and build a food secure africa through the distribution of irrigation tools that make farming a productive, profitable, and climate resilient enterprise.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Headquartered in nairobi, kenya, kickstart international is a nonprofit social enterprise working across sub-saharan africa to support smallholder farmers in building profitable, year-round farming businesses through irrigation. Kickstart designs and distributes affordable irrigation pumps that enable farmers to move beyond rainfed agriculture, increase incomes, improve food security, and reduce vulnerability to droughts and floods. Farmers use kickstart's pumps to grow high-value fruits and vegetables through dry seasons and between rains, when prices are highest. Year-round production allows households to stabilize income, improve nutrition, and invest in school fees, healthcare, and farm improvements. Kickstart has 17+ priority countries across sub-saharan africa and operates through a market-driven model that combines retail distribution with strategic partnerships. The organization works with agro-dealers, cooperatives, agribusinesses, microfinance institutions, savings and credit cooperatives, non-government organizations, and government partners to expand access and affordability. Outreach includes pump demonstrations and training in irrigation and water management, crop…
$4,955,123 spent$542,971 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,955,123.
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 $3.2M to $4.8M (+50%).
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 1% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Martin Fisher
CEO and co-founder
Board chair
Sander Prujis
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $836k → $2.0M.
19 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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
KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
45% 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 KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 22% · 2019 40% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 46% — 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
43% of KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL 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 California
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
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Kickstart International LLC · disregarded
- Kickstart International Ksi Limited · disregarded
- Moneymaker LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL 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 KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC?
- KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,535,573 to it, the largest being GREATER IMPACT FOUNDATION ($2,525,600). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $14,535,573 in grants to KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC?
- GREATER IMPACT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,525,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 51 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