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MWANZO

MWANZO (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,232 to it, the largest being VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION ($200,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$661k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$708k
Net assets
$464k
10/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Mwanzo does

Mission

Develop self-sustaining communities

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 1. Opened the small clinic allocated on the first floor of the community center in the school compound. 2. Offered a medical camp where over four hundred people received treatment for various ailmets. 3. Completed th furnishining of the computer and science labs in the community center building. 4. Hired science and computer subject teachers. 5. Retained all teachers and hired more staff to support the clinic and number of students with a total of 42 staff. 6. The scouting competed and reached the national level for the first time in the schools history. 7. The women continue to train others and have increased their catering business to serve at least 1,000 people per service. 8. The number of micro finance loansand enterprises continue to grow and continue to hellp the women to mitigate challenges. 9. Though the women lost 80% of their hens due to avian flue in mid november, they managed to get an incubtor to help them re-start the poultry business. The microfinance principal amount increase was the funds they used to hire to own/purchase incubator and medicines for the remaining hens. 10. The number of students in school increased due to attraction of the science and computer…

    $346,953 spent$644,440 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $346,953.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2019 Revenue 75 ($136k) Expenses 139 ($122k) Net assets 46 ($45k)2020 Revenue 63 ($114k) Expenses 120 ($105k) Net assets 54 ($53k)2021 Revenue 137 ($249k) Expenses 239 ($210k) Net assets 94 ($91k)2022 Revenue 199 ($361k) Expenses 296 ($261k) Net assets 200 ($195k)2023 Revenue 344 ($624k) Expenses 497 ($438k) Net assets 392 ($382k)2024 Revenue 202 ($366k) Expenses 441 ($388k) Net assets 369 ($360k)2025 Revenue 364 ($661k) Expenses 606 ($533k) Net assets 475 ($464k)
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Revenue (364)Expenses (606)Net assets (475)Peer revenue range

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 $203k to $386k (+90%).

$101k
$50k
$57k
$95k
$203k
$386k
$366k
$470k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of MWANZO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$94k
’18
$14k
’19
$9k
’20
$38k
’21
$100k
’22
$187k
’23
−$22k
’24
$128k
’25
3.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Sven Peterson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed55225
Joined·+1···
No longer listed·1···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $32k → $105k.

8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MWANZO’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

MWANZO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

68% 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 MWANZO.

28%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 47% · 2022 56% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.

“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

75% of MWANZO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

50% of MWANZO'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 $352k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Washington funders.

WA
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MWANZO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 34%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MWANZO?
MWANZO (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,232 to it, the largest being VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION ($200,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MWANZO have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $708,232 in grants to MWANZO, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MWANZO?
VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MWANZO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing