California · Nonprofit
The Maalgo Project
The Maalgo Project (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,106 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $353k
What The Maalgo Project does
Mission
Supporting education through sustainable change in poor, rural communities of Ghana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education ProgramThis project is to resource the community schools with teaching and learning material, and related items aimed at optimizing the potential of teachers and students in the community. This program consists of: Maintaining the community library that was built by Maalgo Initiative in 2009; Collecting and shipping school supplies from the USA; Supplementing the textbook supplies for students; Sponsoring teacher in-service training. In 2023, this project constructed 8 new classrooms for primary school children.
$104,515 spent73% of program spendingLunch programThis program aims to provide basic nutrition for children who would otherwise go hungry at school or fail to come to school because they are too hungry to do so. A committee at the village representing parents and teachers supervise the program. The food is bought from locals or from nearby markets and parents volunteer to cook at the school. No one involved in this is paid except for services such as transportation of the food. The Maalgo project sends money to a partner organization (The Maalgo Initiative) which manages the disbursement through its own bank account.
$39,231 spent27% of program spendingWater Programfunds are spent on: Drilling the well to find potable water that is sufficiently accessed by 600 families daily; Laying the pipes from the well to the storage tanks; Construction of shed for storage tanks; Construction of overheard tanks that distribute water through spigots at a centralized location; and Fence wall to secure water facility.Funds are used to pay for material and labor to execute the project. The Maalgo project sends money to a partner organization (The Maalgo Initiative) from the community of Vea. Maalgo Initiative is a community based nonprofit organization recognized and licensed by the Ghana Registrar General. It operates under the laws of Ghana but coordinates with The Maalgo Project to be sure that funds from the latter are used responsibly. A member of the Maalgo Initiative is the project director and contracts artisans to do carry out the various aspects of the project such as geological drilling, water testing, pump installation, building of wall and tower.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $143,746.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $113k to $207k (+83%).
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.
96% of The Maalgo Project’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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Maalgo 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 Maalgo Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Maalgo Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
91% of The Maalgo 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
The Maalgo Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Maalgo 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 Maalgo Project?
- The Maalgo Project (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,106 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Maalgo Project have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $35,106 in grants to The Maalgo Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Maalgo Project?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Maalgo Project 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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