California · Nonprofit
KIVA MICROFUNDS
KIVA MICROFUNDS (California) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,097,389 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($8,684,160). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year. KIVA MICROFUNDS administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
KIVA MICROFUNDS administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programKIVA MICROFUNDS runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$366k
Recipients
4
Contributions on record
$54M
Donors on record
243
Payments out are 0.01x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- Give2asiaportfolio match
- Opportunity Finance Networkportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 57 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $11M.
36 of 238 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 KIVA MICROFUNDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 238 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.
Where its funders are
KIVA MICROFUNDS draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 238 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 143 organizations that share your funders
- Give2asiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opportunity Finance Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skees Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Micah 68 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Life You Can Saveportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Imago Dei Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 140 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 187 organizations that share your funders
- Pledgeling Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 199 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding KIVA MICROFUNDS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of State$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Kiva User Funds LLC · disregarded
- Kiva-Daf LLC · disregarded
- Kiva Impact Funds LLC · disregarded
- Kiva Capital Management LLC · disregarded
- California Rebuilding Fund LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIVA MICROFUNDS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS?
- KIVA MICROFUNDS (California) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,097,389 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($8,684,160). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year. KIVA MICROFUNDS administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does KIVA MICROFUNDS have?
- IRS filings report 238 organizations giving $54,097,389 in grants to KIVA MICROFUNDS, 119 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIVA MICROFUNDS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $8,684,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIVA MICROFUNDS 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.
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 238funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing