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PROJECT ZAWADI INC

PROJECT ZAWADI INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,597,302 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($733,205). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$665k
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$275k
20/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Project Zawadi Inc does

Mission

To ensure tanzanian children and youth have access to a quality education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Teacher training to improve classroom experience

    $222,101 spent
    43% of program spending
  2. Student sponsorship

    $207,271 spent
    40% of program spending
  3. School support

    $87,525 spent
    17% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $516,897.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($188k) Net assets 100 ($244k)2019 Revenue 163 ($291k) Expenses 119 ($223k) Net assets 127 ($311k)2020 Revenue 182 ($325k) Expenses 189 ($355k) Net assets 117 ($286k)2021 Revenue 285 ($511k) Expenses 233 ($439k) Net assets 156 ($380k)2022 Revenue 327 ($585k) Expenses 364 ($685k) Net assets 109 ($266k)2023 Revenue 352 ($630k) Expenses 327 ($614k) Net assets 113 ($276k)2024 Revenue 365 ($654k) Expenses 363 ($682k) Net assets 103 ($252k)2025 Revenue 371 ($665k) Expenses 349 ($656k) Net assets 113 ($275k)
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Revenue (371)Expenses (349)Net assets (113)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 2021 to 2022, from $444k to $270k (−39%).

$249k
$314k
$288k
$444k
$270k
$282k
$254k
$276k
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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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of PROJECT ZAWADI INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$68k
’19
−$30k
’20
$72k
’21
−$100k
’22
$16k
’23
−$28k
’24
$9k
’25
1.1
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.

Board chair

Ian Keith

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1314151417151418
Joined··+7+0+3+1+5+4
No longer listed··610360
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $47k → $331k.

8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 ZAWADI 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

PROJECT ZAWADI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

77% 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 ZAWADI INC.

46%
largest funder
64%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 81% · 2019 78% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 62% · 2023 41% — 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

71% of PROJECT ZAWADI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

73% of PROJECT ZAWADI 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 $428k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 11 states.

WA
MN
IL
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
SC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

PROJECT ZAWADI INC has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT ZAWADI INC?
PROJECT ZAWADI INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,597,302 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($733,205). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PROJECT ZAWADI INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,597,302 in grants to PROJECT ZAWADI INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT ZAWADI INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $733,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT ZAWADI INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing