Washington · Nonprofit
RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,918,859 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($22,540,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $73M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Rural Development Institute does
Mission
Landesa champions and works to secure land rights for millions of the world's poorest, mostly rural women and men to provide opportunity and promote social justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A commitment to rigorous monitoring and evaluation undergirds landesa's work. This process facilitates internal learning for future projects and in many cases expands the understanding of land-related interventions among the global development community. Landesa further disseminates project learning, elevates the issue of land rights, and cultivates new donor resources through strategic communications efforts. These activities build awareness and expand understanding of the importance of land rights as a development intervention. Landesa's corporate engagement program develops tools and resources to help companies shape land policies that align with international standards and best practices, leading to better outcomes for local communities.
$10,158,537 spentof which $1,369,590 as grants$453,028 earned by the program64% of program spendingAsia is home to the largest rural population in the world, where land rights are essential to improving lives and livelihoods. Through partnerships with national governments, including china, india, and myanmar, regional bodies like the association of southeast asian nations, local civil society, and the private sector, landesa provides technical assistance and expertise to strengthen land laws and policy, guide implementation efforts, promote legal literacy and awareness of rights to land, and improve outcomes for women and communities in business supply chains and land-based investments.
$3,133,106 spentof which $930,345 as grants20% of program spendingLand is the most important asset in sub-saharan africa, yet 90 percent of africa's rural land is undocumented. Landesa's africa program works to strengthen land rights policy and implementation efforts on the continent, leading to improved outcomes for women, youth, rural households, and other groups. In liberia and tanzania, landesa is partnering with local civil society organizations to pursue innovative solutions for greater access and rights to land for women, men and communities.
$2,482,469 spentof which $1,035,693 as grants$199,494 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,774,112.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $36M (+221%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 1% · 2023 17% · 2024 10% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Chris Jochnick
CEO
Board chair
Titi Liu
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $5.0M → $8.1M.
16 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 32% · 2019 67% · 2020 58% · 2021 31% · 2022 70% · 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
45% of RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
68% of RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE'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 $23M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.7M on record.
- Department of State$7.0M
- Millennium Challenge Corporation$717k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Landesa Consulting LLC · disregarded
- Rural Development Institute · disregarded
- Landesa Kenya Limited · exempt
- Landesa Consulting Private Limited · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: 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 RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE?
- RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,918,859 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($22,540,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $72,918,859 in grants to RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 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