Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE TAIMAKA PROJECT
THE TAIMAKA PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,813 to it, the largest being FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ($306,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $682k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $571k
- Net assets
- $396k
What The Taimaka Project does
Mission
Our mission is to end preventable deaths from acute childhood malnutrition. To do that, we treat children and we incubate innovations to make treatment better, cheaper, and simpler.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Malnutrition treatment program: taimaka treats severely acutely malnourished children in northeastern nigeria through outpatient and inpatient care to save lives. In 2024, taimaka conducted a cycle of treatment that treated more than 4,990 under-five children.
$416,826 spentof which $321,834 as grants80% of program spendingInnovations in malnutrition treatment program: taimaka uses its malnutrition treatment program to conduct critical research designed to identify better, cheaper, or simpler ways of delivering malnutrition treatment so that scarce resources can go further and more children ultimately get the treatment they need. In 2024, taimaka studied the causes of relapse in sam children treated by the program, whether improved support for mothers suffering from mental illness led to better recovery for their children, and piloted biometrics for improved child identification.
$104,207 spentof which $48,803 as grants20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $521,033.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $184k to $316k (+72%).
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.
99% of THE TAIMAKA 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 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $208k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 TAIMAKA PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
THE TAIMAKA PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 TAIMAKA PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of THE TAIMAKA 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 $113k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $458k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 TAIMAKA 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 TAIMAKA PROJECT
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Farmimpact Limited · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TAIMAKA 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 TAIMAKA PROJECT?
- THE TAIMAKA PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,813 to it, the largest being FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ($306,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE TAIMAKA PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $570,813 in grants to THE TAIMAKA PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TAIMAKA PROJECT?
- FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC is the largest funder on record, with $306,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TAIMAKA PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 10 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