Colorado · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC
NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,457 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($96,036). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $208k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $54k
What National Center for Us-El Salvador Sister Cities Inc does
Mission
Promoting people-to peole solidarity relationships between the united states and el salvador. Our solidarity relationships involve mutual community accompaniment, organizing, education, and fundraising for local community development projects in el salvador. The mutual community accompaniment specifically includes regular meetings between sistering communities, that is, meetings facilitated by staff or volunteers between specific communities in the unites states and el salvador that have maintained communications for decades. There are about twelve cities in the unites states that have a direct relationship with over twelve communities in el salvador. Organizing and education includes bimonthly online events, monthly national team meetings, annual in-person tours in the united states, speaking engagements, and updates about current events on our blog and social media. We have three annual fundraisers to support this work, which includes mailed letters, emails, social media posts, and s
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and community based programs. Includes infrastructure and material-aid projects to a variety of economic development and educational programs. General support of local economic development, health care education, university and high school scholarships, and agricultural support. This furthers our mission and exempt purpose because it promotes solidarity relationships. Percentage of time for this activity is roughly 60% it is an ongoing activity that we have been doing since we were founded. The activity happens in our locations in the us and in collaboration with our salvadoran partners. The community-based programs occur in 250 rural salvadoran communities.
$152,432 spent$86,147 earned by the program95% of program spendingExchange-based educational programs. Includes educational delegations to facilitate understanding of salvadoran rural communities and education tours and meetings within the united states. This furthers our mission and exempt purpose because it promotes solidarity relationships. Percentage of time for this activity is 40%. It is an ongoing activity that we have been doing since we were founded. The activity happens in our locations in the us and in collaboration with our salvadoran partners. Delegations typically range 7-10 days and include 4-12 participants. We have approximately 3-8 delegations each year. During educational tours in the unites states, we typically travel to over 4 cities and hose in-person events at each stop with churches, universities, community organizations, and more. Tours last about 10 days, and each event is 1-2 hours with 10-50 attendees at each event. We have several 1 hour meetings each month for our national teams and bimonthly public online events. There are 5-50 attendees at these events.
$7,335 spent$4,145 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,767.
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 2022 to 2023, from $113k to $160k (+42%).
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.
57% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $800 → $30k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
99% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,457 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($96,036). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $132,457 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,036 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR US-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2025), 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