Alabama · Nonprofit
START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC
START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC (Alabama) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($64,773). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $786k
What Start With One International Inc does
Mission
The mission of start with one international, inc. ("swoi") is to provide the seeds of opportunity for people to make a sustainable difference in their world. Currently, the focus is in kenya with humanitarian/development projects including clean water to communities, hygiene/health campaigns, providing education, building infrastructure and assistance to schools, orphanages and churches, women's empowerment & business entrepreneurship. In october 2013, swoi began working with a kenya in october 2013, swoi began working with a kenya non-governmental organization, start with one kenya ("swok") to accomplish these goals. Swoi has several personnel on the ground in kenya for the purpose of researching potential projects and the monitoring & financial oversight of the humanitarian projects granted to & conducted by swok. Swok has its own personnel to be hosts & coordinators for mission teams to go and demonstrate god's love by actively participating in the humanitarian projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clean water is a key initiative of humanitarian projects. Drinking unsafe water is a major contributor to disease & death within kenya. Through a grant agreement, swoi grants funds to start with one kenya ("swok") for projects that focus on clean water. Swok & mission teams conduct training sessions on good hygiene practices and the importance of using & drinking clean water. In 2025, swok distributed 12,000 uzima clean water filters to households assisting an estimated 60,000 individuals in the kiamaina ward area of kenya. In 2024, swok distributed 6,500 uzima clean water filters to households assisting an estimated 32,500 individuals in the ol-rongai area of kenya. In 2023, swok distributed 6,500 uzima clean water filters to households assisting an estimated 32,500 individuals in the njoro area of kenya. In 2022, there were significant shipping issues and it took many months for a re-supply of uzima water filters to arrive. Nonetheless, swok distributed 4,800 clean water filters to households assisting an estimated 24,000 individuals. In 2021 & 2020, due to covid-19, there was a reduction in donations received and thus a resulting decrease in mission work. For fye 30sept2021,…
$446,733 spentof which $241,186 as grants$313,403 earned by the program48% of program spendingEducation: swoi through a grant agreement with swok is involved in the educational sponsorship of approximately 160 children including 30+ former street boys. There are over 100 children graduated from high school and 43 enrolled in unviersity/technical schools. Between 2017-2024, swok had over 77 children graduate from high school with 53 (68%) continuing on education. The kenya national average is 16%. In december 2023 swok had 24 students graduate from high school and another 24 attending post high school education. In 2022 and 2021, the kenya school program accelerated to 4 terms per year in an effort to catch up from the 2020 covid shut down. Due to covid-19 & school shut down in kenya, many of the sponsorship funds were used for covid relief and home-schooling efforts for the sponsored children. Swok has conducted & coordinated various other trainings & empowerment seminars in kenya (ie. Hygiene & sanitation presentations, pastor trainings & business practices). In addition, swok is involved with the gituamba jkc primary school located in rural kenya. Through granted funds, swok provides a lunch feeding program for over 500 students and provides textbooks & other supplies.…
$158,077 spentof which $158,077 as grants17% of program spendingBuilding projects: swoi granted funds to swok for building various necessary infrastructure within kenya. In 2025, work concentrated on building homes in the gituamba community and at the gituamba jkc school upgrading roofs with thermal felt to handle the heat and improving flooring in classrooms. In 2024, swok in partnership with the gituamba jkc comprehensive school added a new classroom and science laboratory. In 2023, swok partnered with ngala school for the deaf in nakuru county to renovate and rebuild their kitchens and dining hall. Since gituamba jkc primary school has been selected as a site for the addition of a class 9, work began on a new 9th grade classroom as well as a scince lab and computer lab. In 2022, building initiatives resumed at gituamba jkc primary school with the expansion & renovation of 4 early childhood development classrooms. Also, book cabinets, learning tables and a concrete slab for two additional classrooms. A new 10,000 liter water tank was added to the school to help the school becoming more water secure during droughts. In 2021 & 2020, due to covid-19, there was a reduction in donations received. As a result, all building projects for 2020 were…
$161,232 spentof which $161,232 as grants17% of program spendingMission teams: swoi grants funds to swok to host mission teams. In 2025 and 2024, swok hosted several mission teams and small groups that focused on a variety of activities from the distribution of uzima clean water filters, to work at gituamba jkc primary school and a school for the deaf in siaya, kenya as well as conducting health & eye clinics. In 2023, swok hosted two mission teams and several small groups that focused on a variety of activities from the distribution of uzima clean water filters, to work at gituamba jkc primary school and ngala school for the deaf as well as conducting health & eye clinics. In 2022, travel had not recovered fully to pre-pandemic levels. Swok hosted one mission team and several smaller groups of individuals to collaborate in the work of swok in kenya. In 2020 & 2021, due to covid 19, there was a reduction in mission work. As a result of the pandemic, swok received only one group in kenya before lockdowns took affect. Expense of $168,671 including grants of $168,671 and revenue of $0.healthcare: swoi grants funds to swok for its heathcare initiatives. For fye 30sept 2025, 2024, 2023 and 2022, swok conducted several days of health & eye care…
$168,671 spentof which $168,671 as grants18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $934,713.
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 2023 to 2024, from $512k to $857k (+67%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 $200 → $64k.
11 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 30% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 36% · 2023 37% — 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
55% of START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
79% of START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC'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 $61k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC's revenue grew 60% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Uzima Clean Water Mission LLC · disregarded
- Uzima Filters LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC?
- START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC (Alabama) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($64,773). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $290,000 in grants to START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 18 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