Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NAMATI INC
NAMATI INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,541,458 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($26,332,350). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $77M
- Net assets
- $90M
What Namati Inc does
Mission
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. We strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives. Namati's work enables poor and underprivileged people to exercise their legal rights to protect and promote their social, cultural, and economic livelihoods. Our activities primarily consist of providing and training others to provide legal aid services. Namati intends to build a global network of practitioners to facilitate the sharing of tools and resources, foster dialogue, and ultimately create a movement for legal empowerment worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land, environment, and climate (lec)in kenya, sierra leone, and myanmar, namati and our partners work to strengthen a global movement of grassroots advocates advancing land, environmental, and climate justice. Paralegals support communities to negotiate projects on their land through organizing, collective bargaining, and enforcement of community rights.in 2025, in sierra leone, paralegals supported 220+ communities in sittia chiefdom to secure a landmark agreement protecting 79,000 hectares of mangroves and ensuring communities receive over 40% of revenue. In kenya, communities advanced negotiations with the northern rangelands trust carbon project, resulting in a transition toward community-led ownership. In myanmar, paralegals supported more than 64,000 people to protect community lands. Globally, the carbon justice campaign connected these local efforts to systemic change. We convened teams and grassroots justice network members to share lessons, support advocacy, and influence carbon market standards reaching over 1,000 organizations through peer learning and practical tools. Together, these efforts shaped national legislation and contributed to updates to verra's carbon…
$4,647,316 spentof which $2,430,818 as grants44% of program spendingGrassroots justice networkthe grassroots justice network (gjn) remains the world's largest collective of grassroots justice defenders and their allies. Our members represent more than 4500 civil society organizations working directly with communities across 190 countries. Gjn continues to bring people together to connect, learn, and take collective action. In 2025, the gjn focused on developing a curriculum that distills field-tested, grassroots insights, as well as establishing the infrastructure needed to run the grassroots justice network academy - a world class institute and learning community focused on strengthening legal empowerment work globally, slated to launch in 2026.
$3,320,996 spentof which $1,561,545 as grants32% of program spendingCitizenship in kenya and bangladesh, paralegals work together with people to secure and use identification (id) documents, ensuring they can access their fundamental rights as citizens. Without basic documents like birth certificates, id cards, or passports, people cannot access essential services or participate in governance. In 2025, 7,108 id documents or entitlements like access to government welfare schemes were secured, which positively affected the lives of 11,661 people. Paralegals support community ambassadors to take action outside of their own cases to know, use, and shape the law. In 2025, the citizenship program engaged with over 250 community ambassadors through in-person workshops and virtual calls that strengthened skills in advocacy tactics, public speaking, campaigning, organizing, and risk mitigation. Ambassadors use these skills to engage in collective action and encourage improvement in id systems to ease access for all citizens. In 2025 in kenya, more than a decade of communities knowing, using, and shaping the law culminated in a historic victory: the abolition of discriminatory vetting for identification documents.
$1,145,256 spentof which $459,346 as grants11% of program spendingGlobal programs
$1,009,243 spent10% of program spendingHealth accountability
$369,958 spentof which $140,689 as grants4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,492,769.
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 2024 to 2025, from $45M to $91M (+105%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 12% · 2019 13% · 2020 19% · 2021 4% · 2022 23% · 2023 11% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NAMATI INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Vivek H Maru
President & CEO
Board chair
Ruth Levine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $940k → $10M.
15 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 NAMATI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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.
How concentrated its funding is
NAMATI INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
42% 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 NAMATI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 33% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% — 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
61% of NAMATI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
NAMATI INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
NAMATI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NAMATI INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
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.
Organizations like NAMATI 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 NAMATI 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 NAMATI INC?
- NAMATI INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,541,458 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($26,332,350). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMATI INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $76,541,458 in grants to NAMATI INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMATI INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $26,332,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMATI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 53 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