Arizona · Nonprofit
KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC
KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,853,072 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($603,657). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Kino Border Initiative Inc does
Mission
Promote humane, just, and workable migration through: direct humanitarian assistance and holistic accompaniment of migrants; education and encounter between migrants and others that transforms people and communities towards solidarity with migrants; policy advocacy in mexico and the us.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Humanitarian Assistance and Holistic Accompaniment The Kino Border Initiative meets migrants basic needs when they are in Nogales, Sonora, including providing food, medical assistance, clothing, and shelter to men, women, and children. KBI also provides holistic support in its accompaniment of migrants, including empowerment, support navigating local resources, job training and placement, and psychological care.
$1,026,977 spentof which $700,000 as grants61% of program spendingEducation The Kino Border Initiative creates spaces of encounter between migrants and others that transforms people and communities towards solidarity with migrants. That education work includes welcoming down parishes and schools for immersion experiences, giving presentations to communities throughout the US and Mexico and working with migrants to share their testimonies with a broader public in different media forms.
$278,065 spent$84,734 earned by the program16% of program spendingAdvocacy The Kino Border Initiative works to advance humane, just and workable migration and border policy. It does so through building relationships with decision makers in the US and Mexico, providing them with opportunities to listen to and grow in empathy with migrants at the border, sharing information about the ways that policies harm the migrant individuals and families in Nogales, Sonora.
$212,410 spent13% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 173,715, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Legal defense fund, travel, volunteers, and Kino Teens.
$173,715 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,691,167.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.8M to $6.3M (+65%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $105k → $720k.
20 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
43% 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 KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 15% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 12% · 2023 35% — 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
38% of KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like KINO BORDER INITIATIVE 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kbi Mexico Holding LLC · disregarded
- Kbi Sonora Ac · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC?
- KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,853,072 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($603,657). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $4,853,072 in grants to KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $603,657 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 78 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