Nonprofit
PROXIMITY DESIGNS
PROXIMITY DESIGNS receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,837,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($10,012,000). 5 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
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Proximity Designs does
Mission
To increase income and improve the well-being of vulnerable rural families in developing myanmar (burma).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided low-cost farm equipment and agricultural knowledge to poor families in villages in myanmar (burma).
$5,367,049 spent$1,631,023 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,367,049.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $37M to $18M (−51%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 14% · 2019 13% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 9% · 2023 13% · 2024 8% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of PROXIMITY DESIGNS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
James D Taylor
Director/chief executive o
Board chair
Minos Athanassiadis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $1.3M.
4 of 6 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 PROXIMITY DESIGNS’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
PROXIMITY DESIGNS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PROXIMITY DESIGNS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 88% · 2020 47% · 2021 67% · 2022 69% · 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.
Against its field
PROXIMITY DESIGNS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROXIMITY DESIGNS
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.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Proximity Farm Services Company Limited by Guarantee · disregarded
- Proximity Finance Microfinance Company Ltd · corp_trust
- Proximity Holding Company Pte Ltd · corp_trust
- Tun Yat Limited · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROXIMITY DESIGNS: 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 PROXIMITY DESIGNS?
- PROXIMITY DESIGNS receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,837,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($10,012,000). 5 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 PROXIMITY DESIGNS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $12,837,000 in grants to PROXIMITY DESIGNS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROXIMITY DESIGNS?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,012,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROXIMITY DESIGNS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 6 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