Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
TOSTAN INC
TOSTAN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,122,921 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Tostan Inc does
Mission
Tostan empowers communities to develop and achieve their vision for the future and inspires large-scale movements leading to dignity for all
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In seeking to scale community well-being as a part of its strategy 2023-30 tostan has a range of inter related program services: direct implementation of programs and implementation partnerships with affiliates; sharing and mutual learning including training, a community of practice, capacity development support, and global influence including convening and engagement with international actors. A. Direct implementation in relation to its direct implementation and affiliation programs, in 2024, tostan operated in 5 countries and had the following reach (continued on schedule o)
$8,645,696 spent$780,173 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,645,696.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.3M to $25M (+384%).
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: 2017 48% · 2018 21% · 2019 31% · 2020 28% · 2021 9% · 2022 26% · 2023 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of TOSTAN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $987k.
16 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 TOSTAN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
TOSTAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 TOSTAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 92% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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
43% of TOSTAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
76% of TOSTAN INC'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 $7.8M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
TOSTAN INC receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $32M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TOSTAN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $350 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $350
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TOSTAN 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOSTAN 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 TOSTAN INC?
- TOSTAN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,122,921 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOSTAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $32,122,921 in grants to TOSTAN INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOSTAN INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOSTAN 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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