Virginia · Nonprofit
THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL
THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,759 to it, the largest being VEROS CHARITIES INC ($365,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $734k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $658k
- Net assets
- $521k
What Three Roots International does
Mission
By partnering with vulnerable communities in ethiopia, we strive to equip vulnerable people to
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ethiopia operations: we partner with rural communities to create sustainable pathways out of poverty by:1) delivering high-quality health education and empowering community health workers so that people can live long and healthy lives.2) restoring the opportunity for children and adults to learn through high quality early childhood, primary, and vocational education.3) equipping men and women to earn a predictable income through business development training and savings groups to create financial resilience.4) building the capacity of community leaders to maintain program initiatives, so that communities can sustain gains and thrive for years to come.as ethiopia continues to react to the challenges created by the covid pandemic and internal conflict, our programming continued to address widening inequities, as noted in the multidimensional poverty index (mpi). In 2025, we saw expansion of our savings groups for peer-to-peer lending and business development, as 541 women participated across 30groups. 106 women launched new businesses with loans from their savings groups. As women build financial literacy, so too, do families increase household assets, build savings for crises, and…
$563,983 spent95% of program spendingAwareness and engagement: the awareness and engagement program works to mobilize volunteers and educate the public about the realities of extreme poverty and the pathways through which individuals and communities can be empowered to break its generational cycle. We recruit, train, and deploy volunteers to serve alongside communities affected by extreme poverty. Through events, storytelling, and digital content, the organization reaches individuals, faith communities, and other groups across the united states with the message that extreme poverty is not inevitable and that people living in poverty can transform their lives with the right resources and opportunities.
$31,801 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $595,784.
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 $271k to $451k (+67%).
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: 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Susan Conway
CEO
Board chair
Andrea Wells
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $106k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL’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
THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 67% · 2022 72% · 2023 59% — 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
25% of THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
85% of THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL: 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 THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL?
- THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,759 to it, the largest being VEROS CHARITIES INC ($365,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $657,759 in grants to THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL?
- VEROS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THREE ROOTS INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing