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SMALL EFFORTS

SMALL EFFORTS (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,583 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($542,251). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$157k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$809k
Net assets
$141k
2/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Small Efforts does

Mission

To reduce poverty in Pakistan by empowering poor and underprivileged people.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships for university students.

    $33,000 spent$45,000 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

  2. Clean water access / install handpumps.

    $23,000 spent$28,706 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

  3. Healthcare in Jehlum: Provide healthcare / Outpatient clinic in Jehlum

    $21,400 spent$12,886 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

  4. Needy Families Fund

    $18,800 spent$18,825 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

  5. Needy Families Fund-Ghazni

    $14,000 spent$10,564 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

  6. Reduce Poverty in Murree through Microfinance

    $10,000 spent$12,050 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

  7. General management and salaries in Pakistan

    $8,000 spent$4,048 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

  8. Microfinance Loans

    $8,000 spent$8,947 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

  9. Feed The Hungry

    $7,000 spent$1,500 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

  10. Qurbani / Goats on Eid Ul Azha.

    $4,800 spent$5,150 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

  11. Zakat

    $2,000 spent$6,104 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

  12. Education project in Lahore

    $0 spent$3,710 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 12 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $150,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($277k) Expenses 100 ($274k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2021 Revenue 84 ($234k) Expenses 64 ($176k) Net assets 187 ($125k)2022 Revenue 99 ($275k) Expenses 92 ($251k) Net assets 224 ($149k)2023 Revenue 48 ($132k) Expenses 53 ($145k) Net assets 205 ($136k)2024 Revenue 44 ($122k) Expenses 46 ($125k) Net assets 200 ($133k)2025 Revenue 57 ($157k) Expenses 55 ($150k) Net assets 211 ($141k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (57)Expenses (55)Net assets (211)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 2020 to 2021, from $67k to $125k (+87%).

$67k
$125k
$149k
$136k
$133k
$141k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SMALL EFFORTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’20
$58k
’21
$25k
’22
−$13k
’23
−$3k
’24
$7k
’25
11
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed233445
Joined··+0+1+0+1
No longer listed··0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $239k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
2
3
3
2
2
2
1

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SMALL EFFORTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

SMALL EFFORTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 SMALL EFFORTS.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 75% · 2022 81% · 2023 77% — 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

100% of SMALL EFFORTS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $809k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SMALL EFFORTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve11.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SMALL EFFORTS

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

Z Foundation Global68%People for Progress in India66%Compassion in Deeds66%The Education and Diversity Foundation65%Gifts - Rwanda65%Open Arms Giving Network65%Women's Enterprises International Dba Path From Poverty64%Al Ihsan Social Development Center64%

Nationally

Pearl Foundation74%The Human Development Foundation of North America74%Omeed74%AFZAL Noor Trust Foundation73%Share To Care Foundation Inc72%Momina Cheema Foundation Inc72%Helping Hand Relief for the Poor72%The Hassan Foundation72%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMALL EFFORTS: 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 SMALL EFFORTS?
SMALL EFFORTS (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,583 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($542,251). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SMALL EFFORTS have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $808,583 in grants to SMALL EFFORTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMALL EFFORTS?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $542,251 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMALL EFFORTS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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