Washington · Nonprofit
PROJECT ETHIOPIA
PROJECT ETHIOPIA (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,885 to it, the largest being DAVID & CAROL MYERS FOUNDATION ($260,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $268k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $650k
- Net assets
- $319k
What Project Ethiopia does
Mission
Project Ethiopia partners with rural communities to create hope and opportunity through education, healthy homes, and economic resilience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2023, Project Ethiopia completed two rural primary school buildings consisting of four rooms each and serving a total of 420 students a day in grades K-8. We painted the interior walls and distributed solar powered lanterns with cell phone chargers to 200 households so that now more than 1,100 adults and children are benefitting from clean, healthy lighting. During the year we completed 56 new homes with durable, long-lasting iron roofing where previously these families (192 total adults and children) lived in leaky, grass-roofed homes. Of these families, 60% are female-headed households. We formed two new Farmers' Associations, each comprised of 50 model farmers (for a total of 20 women and 80 men) and provided each member with tools and materials to improve their farm production. For villagers who cannot access traditional lines of credit, we provided 40 low-interest loans to 30 women and 10 men. Lastly, we provided 100 University Transition Awards to 35 girls and 65 boys from seven local high schools.
$179,978 spentof which $157,643 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,978.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $142k to $235k (+66%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 5% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PROJECT ETHIOPIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Sue Wilkes
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $27k → $199k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 PROJECT ETHIOPIA’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
PROJECT ETHIOPIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 PROJECT ETHIOPIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 55% · 2020 69% · 2021 73% · 2022 49% · 2023 45% — 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
44% of PROJECT ETHIOPIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
52% of PROJECT ETHIOPIA'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 $314k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $336k 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
PROJECT ETHIOPIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT ETHIOPIA
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT ETHIOPIA: 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 PROJECT ETHIOPIA?
- PROJECT ETHIOPIA (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,885 to it, the largest being DAVID & CAROL MYERS FOUNDATION ($260,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT ETHIOPIA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $649,885 in grants to PROJECT ETHIOPIA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT ETHIOPIA?
- DAVID & CAROL MYERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT ETHIOPIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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