Virginia · Nonprofit
TECHNOSERVE INC
TECHNOSERVE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 236 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,555,486 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($34,041,392). 152 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $122M
- Funders on record
- 236
- Grants received
- $124M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Technoserve Inc does
Mission
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1968, Technoserve Inc is a leader in harnessing the power of business to help people lift themselves out of poverty for good. A nonprofit organization working in about 30 countries, we help people build better futures through regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes. Our vision is a sustainable world where all people in low-income communities have the opportunity to prosper. In 2024, Technoserve Inc's work supported 1.2 million people and enterprises across latin america, africa, and asia to generate $491 million in increased revenue. Of those benefiting from improved revenues, 42% were women or women-owned businesses. 73,000 jobs were created, strengthened, or filled as a result of Technoserve Inc's work in 2024. Our programs improved the lives of an estimated 3.1 million people worldwide, including farmers, entrepreneurs, employees, and their families. Each dollar invested in our programs helped clients increase their revenue by an average of $7.60. Meanwhile, an estimated 126,000 tons of co2e emissions were avoided, reduced, or sequestered through Technoserve Inc projects promoting regenerative practices. Below, we provide updates from…
$102,970,841 spentof which $14,942,086 as grants$149,496 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,970,841.
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 2020 to 2021, from $76M to $114M (+51%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 34% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TECHNOSERVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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.
Chief executive
William Warshauer
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $13M → $22M.
41 of 236 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 TECHNOSERVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 236 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
TECHNOSERVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
34% 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 TECHNOSERVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 46% · 2019 63% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% — 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
47% of TECHNOSERVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
TECHNOSERVE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
TECHNOSERVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 98 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 98 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding TECHNOSERVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$101.7M
- Agency for International Development$80.9M
- Department of State$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TECHNOSERVE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Associacao Technoserve Brazil · disregarded
- Fundacion Technoserve Chile · disregarded
- Fundacion Technoserve Colombia · disregarded
- Technoserve (Rf) Npc · disregarded
- Technoserve Zambia Limited · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TECHNOSERVE INC: 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 TECHNOSERVE INC?
- TECHNOSERVE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 236 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,555,486 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($34,041,392). 152 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TECHNOSERVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 236 organizations giving $123,555,486 in grants to TECHNOSERVE INC, 152 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TECHNOSERVE INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,041,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TECHNOSERVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 236 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