Minnesota · Nonprofit
TARKANFI-START WALKING
TARKANFI-START WALKING (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,413 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($56,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Tarkanfi-Start Walking does
Mission
Community development and poverty reduction in Ethiopia. Our service to the poorest is inspired by Christ. 1. Tarkanfi-Start Walking (TSW) provides poor communities in Ethiopia with a gifted community development leader and teacher -- a volunteer missionary who is a US citizen , a native Ethiopian, and a community development professional. This volunteer missionary serves as the unpaid CEO of the Ethiopian non-profit, Tarkanfi Sustainable Development (TSD). In addition, she manages compassionate activities beyond the scope of TSD, networks widely, welcomes international guests, and educates audiences about the condition of impoverished people in Ethiopia. 2. Tarkanfi-Start Walking (TSW) provides funds for community development, poverty reduction, and emergency relief activities in Ethiopia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education: We provided $38,000 to TSD towards improving conditions at Awaro Primary School: 1.) $30,000 towards construction and and equipping a block of 4 classrooms. Prior to construction, the school's one large classroom was deplorably inadequate - crumbling mud walls, leaking roof, large pool of standing water at the "teacher end" of the room, and no desks. The fully equipped classrooms are now serving 400 students in shifts. (We hope to help build more classrooms for this school!) 2. $3,000 towards construction of teacher accommodations (basically bedrooms) at this REMOTE school. Teachers now sleep at the school Sunday thru Thursday nights, only returning to their homes on the weekends. Without these bedrooms, the school has no steady teachers -- no education !!!
$33,000 spentof which $33,000 as grants80% of program spendingCommunity Development Leadership: We provided $5,000 to our volunteer missionary to help with field expenses. This volunteer missionary serves as the unpaid CEO of the Ethiopian non-profit, Tarkanfi Sustainable Development (TSD). She also manages compassionate activities beyond the scope of TSD, networks widely, welcomes international guests, and educates audiences about the condition of impoverished people in Ethiopia.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants12% of program spendingEducation: We provided $3,000 to TSD to help sponsor 30 orphaned students so they could remain in school.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $60k to $20k (−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.
100% of TARKANFI-START WALKING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $17k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 TARKANFI-START WALKING’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
TARKANFI-START WALKING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 TARKANFI-START WALKING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
81% of TARKANFI-START WALKING'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TARKANFI-START WALKING's revenue fell 68% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TARKANFI-START WALKING: 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 TARKANFI-START WALKING?
- TARKANFI-START WALKING (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,413 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($56,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TARKANFI-START WALKING have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $78,413 in grants to TARKANFI-START WALKING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TARKANFI-START WALKING?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TARKANFI-START WALKING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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