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California · Nonprofit
THE THIRST PROJECT (California) is funded by 51 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,158,655 in grants to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($858,098). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE THIRST PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 4,380 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,380 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
100% of THE THIRST PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$33k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $144k and 4 in 2017.
15 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 THIRST PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation.
THE THIRST PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 60% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% · 2024 35% · 2025 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
26% of THE THIRST PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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.
THE THIRST PROJECT draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 51 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
91% of spending goes to programs.
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is 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 51funders 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. view filing