Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES
TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,618,185 to it, the largest being LUKE 311 FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Ten Thousand Villages does
Mission
To create opportunities for artisans in developing countries to earn income by bringing their products and stories to our markets through long-term, fair trading relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the year, Ten Thousand Villages discontinued use of its retail locations and will no longer be providing a physical presence. All sales are made via ecommerce and wholesale transactions.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Furnishing materials, facilitating the import, marketing, and sales of products of impoverished and disadvantaged people in under-resourced communities,primarily through independent retail stores and Ten Thousand Villages- operated non-profit shops. The organization operates 11 retail locations and 31 licensed stores. The company strives to improve the livelihood of tens of thousands of disadvantaged artisans employed by 69 artisan groups located in 24 countries.
$10,857,830 spent$10,861,088 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,857,830.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $8.0M (−42%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Dan Alonso
CEO
Board chair
Ed Diller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $145k → $800k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES’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
TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 74% · 2019 84% · 2020 79% · 2021 56% · 2022 94% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
58% of TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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.
Against its field
TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES: 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 TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES?
- TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,618,185 to it, the largest being LUKE 311 FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,618,185 in grants to TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES?
- LUKE 311 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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