Oregon · Nonprofit
KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER
KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,032 to it, the largest being United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Ko-Falen Cultural Center does
Mission
Creating greater respect and understanding between people of different cultures through art and education. Making meaningful connections across cultural divides.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Entrepreneurial Program in Arts works with tutored students in Lower school and a master class of upper school students and adults. They learn history, meaning and techniques in the ancient Malian art form of bogolanfini. They are trained in the preparation of materials, and the creating of the art form from master artists. They present an exhibition of their works and discuss with journalists, television and prominent community members as well as their families. Their art is also purchased for exhibitions in the U.S. Sales from the exhibition are reinvested in the program. This benefits 180 people in the community.
$11,080 spent28% of program spendingFree tutoring, K-12 for underserved youth in Mali. Teaching reading and writing in French, English, algebra, geometry, physics. Benefits 84 students and their parents.
$7,850 spent20% of program spendingStudent Sponsorships program pays tuition and uniform fees in Mali schools for the neediest of our tutored students. Includes filing for birth certificates and registering students in school if necessary. Benefits 45 students annually. Our tutoring Center Headmaster and Supervisor follow up with the schools monthly during school year and annually.
$7,400 spent19% of program spendingFamily Food and Well-Being program supplies 50 kilos each of millet and rice to the community's most at-risk families. Also includes some financial assistance to members with chronic medical needs. Benefits 200 people, who are interviewed and assessed annually.
$7,000 spent18% of program spendingSewing Program for Young women. Teaches young women sewing, patterning skills. Ko-Falen pays 3 teachers that teach week days in exchange for teaching 5 Ko-Falen students for free in their program. This new program is sponsored by Ko-Falen and takes place at the Ko-Falen Cultural Center in Mali. Benefits 3 teachers and 5 students.
$3,600 spent9% of program spendingA Storytelling Program was re-instituted this year. It includes story sharing among parents and their children to encourage the bond and respect within families. It also includes sessions of community members sharing their stories of struggle due to the violence in the North of the country, and families re-locating to our neighborhood. This has helped the community understand, trust and help new families in the community. Benefits 200 members of the community.
$2,100 spent5% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,030.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $59k to $48k (−18%).
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.
100% of KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Baba Wague Diakite
Executive Director
Board chair
Theresa Burks
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER’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
KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER: 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 KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER?
- KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,032 to it, the largest being United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,032 in grants to KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER?
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KO-FALEN CULTURAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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