Washington · Nonprofit
ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE
ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,474 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($135,940). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Robert Katende Initiative does
Mission
Charitable and educational
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Operating SOM Chess Academy Uganda - provides meals and charitable helps for impoverished children while teaching chess as a means to build confidence, academic skills, critical thinking, and innovation. Also created partnerships to enroll and support academy students in formal educational programs. 8000 children reached.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants22% of program spendingSOM Chess Academy Building Program constructing a new chess center in the heart of Katwe, one of the poorest regions of Uganda. new chess academy will reach thousands of children each year, providing them with sustenance while teaching them educational skills and critical thinking through chess.
$70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants78% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $44k to $4k (−91%).
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.
100% of ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $37k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE’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
ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
57% 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 ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE'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 $106k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE has grown faster than half of the 14,880 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,880 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE
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.
Public support
44%
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 ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE?
- ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,474 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($135,940). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $247,474 in grants to ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERT KATENDE INITIATIVE 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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