Washington · Nonprofit
The Alta Project
The Alta Project (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,156 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($150,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $251k
- Net assets
- $86k
What The Alta Project does
Mission
The Alta Project is dedicated to addressing the fundamental challenges faced by the Turkana and Maasai tribes, including access to clean water, providing access to feminine hygiene products, nutritious meals, and investing in banking collectives and small business training for women.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Comprehensive Support to Milimatutu Girls Senior Secondary SchoolProvided comprehensive support to students and staff at Milimatutu Girls Senior Secondary School. When third-term school fees did not arrive with returning students, the school faced closure; Alta covered wages for support staff - drivers, cooks, security, secretarial, and non-certified classroom aides - and provided food security for the boarding students, allowing the school to remain open. The students completed the school year. Approximately 500 students benefited directly from these services. Based on average family size in the region, the educational, nutritional, and economic benefits of the program extended to an estimated 3,000 family members.Alta staffed and stocked an on-site medical clinic throughout the year, keeping girls healthy and recovering quickly with little lost class time and without the cost and distance of seeking care in Lodwar, and provided conseling alongside visiting specialist teams and the school's ongoing on-site work. Hygiene and sanitation support included 1,000 dignity kits for students and staff, a soap making program in which the girls produced their own soap to keep themselves,…
$147,464 spent45% of program spendingWater Security and Essential Services in TurkanaAdvanced water security and essential services in the Milimatutu and Nagum communities of the Turkana Desert. After 16 drilling attempts, Alta and its local partners completed the first high-yield borehold at Milimatutu, continued digging wells and trenching pipelines toward the school and other water points, and worked to align government, faith, and nongovernmental partners toward shared water security for the region. In collaboration with Compassion International, Alta built the Nagum Survival Center - a community facility delivered through a local church partner that provides maternal and infant care, basic medical services, and educational support to families in the surrounding community based on need. Alta also supported food security, hygiene and sanitation, and basic health needs in the communities it servces. Programs were delivered across eight communities in Turkana North, including Lodwar, Lokore, Nagum, Kakuma, Gold Area, Kang'ikipur, Nakalale, and Milimatutu.
$87,446 spent27% of program spendingOther program servicesOther program services included women's economic empowerment and community development in Turkana and Maasai communities. Alta delivered small business training to 30 women, supported table banking and savings groups that continue to operate - now sustained by local community investment - and distributed diginity kits. In Maasai villages, the local community has begun resourcing its own educational aims, reflecting Alta's model of locally owned, sustainable development.
$58,804 spent18% of program spendingLocalized Leadership and Response Network in KenyaStrengthened a Kenyan-led leadership and response network to confront Akuumaro and keep girls safe and in school. Alta convened leaders across government, education, health, water, faith, and the arts - including county leadership, child protection officers, and community elders - and hosted cross-sector exposure visits to Turkana. The organization works through and behind these leaders so that solutions are designed, owned, and sustained by Turkana itself.
$33,461 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $327,175.
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 $83k to $86k (+3%).
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.
82% of The Alta Project’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 The Alta Project’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
The Alta Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 The Alta Project.
“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
84% of The Alta Project'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Alta Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Alta Project
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Alta Project: 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 The Alta Project?
- The Alta Project (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,156 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($150,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Alta Project have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $251,156 in grants to The Alta Project, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Alta Project?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Alta Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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