Washington · Nonprofit
MAASAI ASSOCIATION
MAASAI ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,595 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $467k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Maasai Association does
Mission
To empower the Maasai people so that they can make better-informed decisions affecting their future, and to minimize permanent migration of young men and women from the community into urban areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our Primary High School and Computer Learning Center provide educational opportunities for over 700 students. Also, there is a new high school for girls that is almost finished. Included is teacher salaries, school fees for needy primary and secondary students and college tuition for a few students.
$23,526 spent35% of program spendingThe Merrueshi Clinic provides basic healthcare to cover 5,000 residents of Merrueshi and surrounding communities. Includes salaries for medical and support staff and operation expenses, purchased medical equipment, vehicle maintenance, and accounting.
$44,500 spent65% of program spendingGoats and cows are needed for nourishment and sustenance. It was also necessary to buy food because of the severe drought situation. Also, a new water project started to conserve water.
$55 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,081.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $306k to $160k (−48%).
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 MAASAI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $66k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 MAASAI ASSOCIATION’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
MAASAI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 MAASAI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 52% · 2019 60% · 2020 67% · 2021 64% · 2022 67% · 2023 61% — 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
63% of MAASAI ASSOCIATION'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 $171k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MAASAI ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 90% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MAASAI ASSOCIATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAASAI ASSOCIATION: 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 MAASAI ASSOCIATION?
- MAASAI ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,595 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAASAI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $466,595 in grants to MAASAI ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAASAI ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAASAI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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