New York · Nonprofit
NABU GLOBAL INC
NABU GLOBAL INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,698,111 to it, the largest being HP FOUNDATION ($2,414,400). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $48k
What Nabu Global Inc does
Mission
Nabu's mission is to solve the global literacy crisis by providing culturally relevant, bilingual storybooks in mother tongue languages so that every child can read and rise to their full potential. Through innovative technology and strategic partnerships, we are creating a world where literacy is accessible to all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Globally, low-cost smartphones have become increasingly accessible and affordable to even the most underprivileged communities around the globe. Nabu's primary means of distributing our free library of mother tongue children's books is through our free, low-bandwidth mobile app, available in country-specific formats in rwanda, kenya, haiti, romania, and the philippines. We also have a global version of our app, which is accessible across other countries. Our original children's books are also available for download and use offline. As of december 2024, we reached 12m people globally through our app and culturally relevant story books since founding.
$1,624,792 spentof which $14,868 as grants76% of program spendingThrough the bridge to literacy (btl) program, nabu works with local partners around the world, particularly ngo's, local governments, community-based organizations and schools to reach as many children and families as possible with nabu's free stories. Partners help onboard families and motivate them to read with their children every day to boost the culture of reading across our program countries.
$366,888 spent17% of program spendingThrough the authentic book creation lab, nabu's global creative team works with local creators in the communities and cultures where we work to publish collections of authentic, culturally relevant children's books in mother tongue languages. Our goal is to ensure that every child has free access to the essential books that they require to learn to read. Our creative process provides a platform for authors to publish fun, bilingual children's books, while honoring and preserving cultural heritage and empowering children to see themselves and their lives reflected in the pages of the stories they read. In 2024, we worked with creatives around the world to author, illustrate, and publish 176 children's stories in 11 languages.
$157,238 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,148,918.
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. 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 $1.7M to $362k (−79%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NABU GLOBAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Kelly Gallagher
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $30k → $1.7M.
14 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 NABU GLOBAL INC’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
NABU GLOBAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 NABU GLOBAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 38% · 2019 63% · 2020 42% · 2021 21% · 2022 53% · 2023 68% — 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
58% of NABU GLOBAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
NABU GLOBAL INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
NABU GLOBAL INC has grown faster than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NABU GLOBAL 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 NABU GLOBAL INC: 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 NABU GLOBAL INC?
- NABU GLOBAL INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,698,111 to it, the largest being HP FOUNDATION ($2,414,400). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NABU GLOBAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,698,111 in grants to NABU GLOBAL INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NABU GLOBAL INC?
- HP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,414,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NABU GLOBAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 27 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