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TASSEL INC

TASSEL INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $567,966 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($340,580). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$568k
Net assets
$1.2M
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Tassel Inc does

Mission

To provide continuous, high quality English education and other sustainability services to the underserved in rural Cambodia as well as to nurture and transform hearts of all involved.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Free English lessons: Daily English classes were provided to 3500 students in 8 rural Cambodian villages (Banan, Jeepan,Kampong Puoy, Rattinak, Roka, Samlot, Samrang). In addition English training was provided to all 43 local teaching staff. Approximately 500 unpaid international volunteers supplemented the local curricula, providing help in writing, reading, listening, speaking, as well as grammar and word usage.

    $577,512 spent
    51% of program spending
  2. Food and Medical Aid: Approximately 6420 families (about 16,000 individuals) were provided rice. Many also were provided additional food - canned fish, fish sauce and soy sauce. TASSEL teachers also took the sick to appropriate domestic medical centers and paid for their hospital bills as well as travel and meal expenses. In the summer 740 villagers received medicine. As in all years, all persons who received food and medical aid in 2025 were pre-screened carefully through family visits and confirmed beforehand that aid was critical.

    $433,248 spentof which $429,972 as grants
    38% of program spending
  3. Senior Center: We invite 280 pre-selected elderly villagers to our school 2x/month. At each session, we provide the elderly a hot meal, English and Khmer lessons, and engage them in social activities such as dancing, singing, moderated discussions and more. Each Senior Center elderly also receives 3 bags of rice annually.

    $63,256 spentof which $63,256 as grants
    6% of program spending
  4. 12 families (29 persons in total) were provided monthly cash support.Sponsored families are the poorest among TASSEL's families. Aid recepients were selected through extensive interviews and visits. Their situation is reviewed monthly through visits. In addition, selected donors provided designated gifts for students and villagers with special needs. The designated gifts included payments towards university tuitions, construction of a room for a family needing a home, construction of a small home for a homeless elderly, blankets for the elderly, a motorcycle for a familly living in a remote area, etc.

    $58,177 spentof which $58,177 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,132,193.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($199k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2018 Revenue 153 ($304k) Expenses 144 ($260k) Net assets 149 ($132k)2020 Revenue 235 ($467k) Expenses 266 ($481k) Net assets 183 ($162k)2021 Revenue 299 ($594k) Expenses 310 ($560k) Net assets 221 ($196k)2022 Revenue 318 ($631k) Expenses 314 ($568k) Net assets 293 ($259k)2023 Revenue 363 ($722k) Expenses 343 ($620k) Net assets 408 ($361k)2024 Revenue 485 ($962k) Expenses 461 ($833k) Net assets 553 ($490k)2025 Revenue 919 ($1.8M) Expenses 632 ($1.1M) Net assets 1323 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (919)Expenses (632)Net assets (1323)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 2024 to 2025, from $490k to $1.2M (+139%).

$89k
$132k
$162k
$196k
$259k
$361k
$490k
$1.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TASSEL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$43k
’18
−$14k
’20
$33k
’21
$64k
’22
$102k
’23
$129k
’24
$681k
’25
5.1
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.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed4888888
Joined··+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $87k.

8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 TASSEL 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

TASSEL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 TASSEL INC.

60%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 27% · 2021 93% · 2022 45% · 2023 65% — 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

38% of TASSEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of TASSEL 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 $34k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from California funders.

IL
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $534k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

TASSEL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

56%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TASSEL INC?
TASSEL INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $567,966 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($340,580). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TASSEL INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $567,966 in grants to TASSEL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TASSEL INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $340,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TASSEL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 13 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