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TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA

TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,785,384 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($7,354,752). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$607k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$3.6M
8/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Tigray Development Association in North America does

Mission

Support in education,, governance, health and youth development

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Expansion of schools, health institutes & opportunities for youth in tigray/ethiopia

    $1,394,848 spentof which $1,393,906 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,394,848.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($354k) Expenses 100 ($618k) Net assets 100 ($218k)2018 Revenue 25 ($88k) Expenses 22 ($137k) Net assets 77 ($169k)2019 Revenue 293 ($1.0M) Expenses 179 ($1.1M) Net assets 36 ($78k)2020 Revenue 1503 ($5.3M) Expenses 225 ($1.4M) Net assets 1841 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 18277 ($65M) Expenses 8845 ($55M) Net assets 6483 ($14M)2022 Revenue 10120 ($36M) Expenses 7787 ($48M) Net assets 869 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 1943 ($6.9M) Expenses 635 ($3.9M) Net assets 2228 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 182 ($644k) Expenses 182 ($1.1M) Net assets 2008 ($4.4M)2025 Revenue 171 ($607k) Expenses 226 ($1.4M) Net assets 1647 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (226)Net assets (1647)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $1.9M (−87%).

$218k
$169k
$78k
$4.0M
$14M
$1.9M
$4.9M
$4.4M
$3.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,947 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$263k
’17
−$49k
’18
−$65k
’19
$3.9M
’20
$10M
’21
−$12M
’22
$3.0M
’23
−$478k
’24
−$788k
’25
31
months of
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.

Board chair

Kidane Assefa

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed14433333
Joined··+0+3+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··040000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $425k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA’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

TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA.

68%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 98% · 2021 93% · 2022 37% · 2023 71% — 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 TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

97% of TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA'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 $274k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.

MN
OR
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−130% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve30.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA?
TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,785,384 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($7,354,752). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $10,785,384 in grants to TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,354,752 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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