Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THESENTRYORG INC
THESENTRYORG INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,955,924 to it, the largest being CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ($2,150,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Thesentryorg Inc does
Mission
The sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The sentry produces hard-hitting investigative reports and dossiers on individuals and entities connected to grand corruption and violence. We advocate for the use of tools of financial and legal pressure, including anti-money laundering and illicit finance measures, targeted network sanctions, criminal prosecutions, compliance actions by banks and other private companies, and asset recovery. As a result of our work, money laundering routes have been exposed and shut down, assets have been frozen, travel has been banned, and corrupt networks have been cut off from the international financial system. Through strategic partnerships with governments, global banks, and other private and public organizations, the sentry has succeeded in creating real consequences for many of the officials and created accountability for actors perpetuating and profiting from war, mass atrocities, and other human rights abuses. In order to track and analyze how armed conflict and atrocities are financed, sustained, and monetized, the sentry uses open source data collection, field research, and state-of-the-art network data analysis technology, and works in partnership with local and international civil…
$2,974,613 spentof which $115,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,974,613.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.0M to $7.3M (+84%).
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: 2019 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THESENTRYORG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
David Frankel
Executive director
Board chair
Bonnie Abaunza
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $624k.
10 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THESENTRYORG INC’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
THESENTRYORG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 THESENTRYORG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 86% · 2019 91% · 2020 65% · 2021 52% · 2022 82% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of THESENTRYORG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
THESENTRYORG INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THESENTRYORG INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THESENTRYORG INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THESENTRYORG INC: 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 THESENTRYORG INC?
- THESENTRYORG INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,955,924 to it, the largest being CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ($2,150,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THESENTRYORG INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,955,924 in grants to THESENTRYORG INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THESENTRYORG INC?
- CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the largest funder on record, with $2,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THESENTRYORG INC 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.
These figures are 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 19 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