Washington · Nonprofit
SE ASIA FOUNDATION
SE ASIA FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,380,660 to it, the largest being THE KARAKIN FOUNDATION ($475,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Se Asia Foundation does
Mission
Eliminating poverty by educating and providing for the wellbeing of marginalized girls and women in Southeast Asia.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
This grant was made to Build Your Future Today, an NGO operating in Siem Reap Province of Cambodia. The purpose was to construct school buildings, teacher accommodations, libraries and otherwise enhance educational opportunities for marginalized children.
$557,180 spentof which $557,180 as grants24% of program spendingThis grant was made to Children's Improvement Organization located in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The purpose was to provide for their operating costs for five years into the future.
$500,000 spentof which $500,000 as grants22% of program spendingThis grant was made to the Kampong Tralach Green School operating in Kampong Tralach village in Cambodia. The purpose was to provide funding for school building construction, facilities improvements, and general operating expenses for the education of approximately 500 marginalized children
$260,210 spentof which $260,210 as grants11% of program spendingAll program services not included in lines 4a, 4b, and 4c were provided to carefully vetted organizations that are working in a reliable, trustworthy manner to provide education, life-skills training, and related services to marginalized girls and women.
$982,850 spentof which $982,850 as grants43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,300,240.
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 2025 to 2026, from $224k to $2.1M (+822%).
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 SE ASIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $50k → $493k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SE ASIA FOUNDATION’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
SE ASIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 SE ASIA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 69% · 2023 71% — 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
80% of SE ASIA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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
SE ASIA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SE ASIA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 204 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 204 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like SE ASIA FOUNDATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SE ASIA FOUNDATION: 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 SE ASIA FOUNDATION?
- SE ASIA FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,380,660 to it, the largest being THE KARAKIN FOUNDATION ($475,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SE ASIA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,380,660 in grants to SE ASIA FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SE ASIA FOUNDATION?
- THE KARAKIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SE ASIA FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 15 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