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SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC

SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$15k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$3k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Scheherazade Initiatives USA Inc does

Mission

The foundation delivers theatre-based projects for community and social change in emerging economies.our objectives are: to inspire individuals with a transformed way of thinking about themselves and the world. To bring people together to explore, collaborate and address critical issues that prevent the fulfillment of human potential, at an individual, national and global level. To deliver unique and visionary theatre-based workshops and programmes to support our objectives. To create new models of leadership, at both a personal and professional level. To create sustainable and replicable learning models that have impact on both a local and global scale.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The foundation delivers theatre-based projects for community and social change in emerging economies.our objectives are: to inspire individuals with a transformed way of thinking about themselves and the world. To bring people together to explore, collaborate and address critical issues that prevent the fulfillment of human potential, at an individual, national and global level. To deliver unique and visionary theatre-based workshops and programmes to support our objectives. To create new models of leadership, at both a personal and professional level. To create sustainable and replicable learning models that have impact on both a local and global scale.

    $141,837 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,837.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($140k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($132k)2023 Revenue 11 ($15k) Expenses 369 ($145k) Net assets 2 ($3k)
20222023
Revenue (11)Expenses (369)Net assets (2)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 2022 to 2023, from $145k to $6k (−96%).

$145k
$6k
20222023
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.

2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$101k
’22
−$129k
’23

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Caroline Watson

CEO

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA 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.

Where its funders are

SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC's revenue fell 89% between 2022 and 2023.

Operating margin−855% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−89% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,663 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DE

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC?
SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC.
Who is the largest funder of SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC?
THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 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