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Neighbors Abroad

Neighbors Abroad (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,839 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($21,152). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$187k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$71k
Net assets
$450k
1/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Neighbors Abroad does

Mission

Support of Sister Cities programs for the City of Palo Alto, CA

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Support programs aiding disadvantaged children and families in developing areas of Oaxaca, Mexico.

    $53,500 spent
    67% of program spending
  2. Supporting educational missions in our Sister City of Palo, Leyte, Philippines.

    $12,000 spent
    15% of program spending
  3. Others

    $13,796 spent
    17% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,296.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($417k)2021 Revenue 301 ($190k) Expenses 202 ($125k) Net assets 116 ($483k)2022 Revenue 270 ($171k) Expenses 353 ($218k) Net assets 104 ($436k)2023 Revenue 181 ($115k) Expenses 198 ($122k) Net assets 103 ($428k)2024 Revenue 295 ($187k) Expenses 266 ($165k) Net assets 108 ($450k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (295)Expenses (266)Net assets (108)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 2020 to 2021, from $417k to $483k (+16%).

$417k
$483k
$438k
$429k
$451k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

54% of Neighbors Abroad’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’20
$66k
’21
−$47k
’22
−$8k
’23
$22k
’24
21
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $6k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Neighbors Abroad’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

Neighbors Abroad leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 Neighbors Abroad.

30%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 100% — 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of Neighbors Abroad's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 9% 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

72% of Neighbors Abroad'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.

CA
DE

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

’19
’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Neighbors Abroad has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Neighbors Abroad

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Neighbors Abroad?
Neighbors Abroad (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,839 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($21,152). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Neighbors Abroad have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $70,839 in grants to Neighbors Abroad, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Neighbors Abroad?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,152 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Neighbors Abroad find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 11 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