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POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL

POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,164 to it, the largest being THE ERIC D & STEVEN D HOVDE FOUNDATION ($218,339). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$398k
Net assets
$898k
4/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Pothawira International does

Mission

Pothawira International is a humanitarian organization providing support to communities, families and individuals in developing countries with an emphasis on healthcare, education and economic sustainability.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. International programs - Pothawira International partners with local organizations in developing countries to help empower communities, families and individuals by providing access to quality healthcare and education and supporting sustainable economic development. Our primary focus is malawi, africa working in conjunction with pothawira (safe haven) christian mission organisation, a registered malawi ngo. We supported the operation of an orphan community with 126 children, a medical clinic that sees 100-300 patients a day, and a primary school with 300 students. We also supported two individuals from the orphanage studying in the united states on f-1 visas. Our funding sources for this work include general donations from the public and grants from foundations.

    $160,876 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,876.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($274k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($231k)2020 Revenue 112 ($306k) Expenses 557 ($244k) Net assets 127 ($293k)2021 Revenue 96 ($264k) Expenses 939 ($411k) Net assets 63 ($145k)2022 Revenue 205 ($562k) Expenses 1075 ($471k) Net assets 102 ($236k)2023 Revenue 424 ($1.2M) Expenses 2037 ($892k) Net assets 219 ($506k)2024 Revenue 610 ($1.7M) Expenses 2923 ($1.3M) Net assets 389 ($898k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (610)Expenses (2923)Net assets (389)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 2023 to 2024, from $506k to $898k (+78%).

$231k
$293k
$145k
$236k
$506k
$898k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$231k
’19
$62k
’20
−$148k
’21
$91k
’22
$270k
’23
$392k
’24
8.4
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed333444
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $58k → $67k.

5 of 16 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 POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL’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

POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

36% 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 POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL.

55%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 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.

How long its funders stay

20% of POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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

POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 10 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
RI
MO
VA
MD
DE
TX
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

4% of spending goes to programs.

Program 4%Management 96%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL?
POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,164 to it, the largest being THE ERIC D & STEVEN D HOVDE FOUNDATION ($218,339). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $398,164 in grants to POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL?
THE ERIC D & STEVEN D HOVDE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $218,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 16 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