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Tropical Health Alliance Foundation

Tropical Health Alliance Foundation (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,643 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($265,563). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$607k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$427k
Net assets
$5.7M
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Tropical Health Alliance Foundation does

Mission

To help people in Ethiopia live healthier and more self-sustainable lives by providing medical assistance, supporting education, and fueling creative enterprise. Surgeries to restore sight, treat birth-related pelvic trauma, establish safe water sources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Funds in support of cataract and trachoma surgeries to prevent and cure blindness

    $206,000 spentof which $206,000 as grants
    31% of program spending
  2. Funds allocated to preventing birth-related maternal and infant complications. In addition to restoring health to women with birth-related pelvic truama

    $201,700 spentof which $201,700 as grants
    31% of program spending
  3. Funds supporting education aimed at empowering poor families, at-risk girls, children, orphans, and people suffering from podoconiosis.

    $179,200 spentof which $179,200 as grants
    27% of program spending
  4. Funds in support of establishing safe water sources in rural ethiopian villages

    $72,222 spentof which $72,222 as grants
    11% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $659,122.

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 ($405k) Expenses 100 ($167k) Net assets 100 ($878k)2018 Revenue 81 ($330k) Expenses 104 ($172k) Net assets 118 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 136 ($552k) Expenses 201 ($335k) Net assets 143 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 71 ($286k) Expenses 73 ($122k) Net assets 161 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 1240 ($5.0M) Expenses 234 ($389k) Net assets 689 ($6.1M)2022 Revenue 173 ($700k) Expenses 368 ($612k) Net assets 699 ($6.1M)2023 Revenue 141 ($573k) Expenses 382 ($636k) Net assets 692 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 103 ($419k) Expenses 411 ($684k) Net assets 662 ($5.8M)2025 Revenue 150 ($607k) Expenses 403 ($671k) Net assets 655 ($5.7M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (403)Net assets (655)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $6.1M (+327%).

$886k
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$6.1M
$6.1M
$6.1M
$5.8M
$5.8M
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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

45% of Tropical Health Alliance Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$239k
’17
$157k
’18
$217k
’19
$164k
’20
$4.6M
’21
$88k
’22
−$63k
’23
−$265k
’24
−$64k
’25
27
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

Geir Frivold MD MPH

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0···+1+0
No longer listed·000···00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $52k → $33k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Tropical Health Alliance Foundation’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

Tropical Health Alliance Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

74% 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 Tropical Health Alliance Foundation.

62%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 59% · 2019 49% · 2020 72% · 2021 80% · 2022 56% · 2023 65% — broadly stable.

“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

89% of Tropical Health Alliance Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of Tropical Health Alliance Foundation'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 $112k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

MN
CA
DE
TX

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

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’18
’19
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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Tropical Health Alliance Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve26.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education 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

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tropical Health Alliance Foundation?
Tropical Health Alliance Foundation (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,643 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($265,563). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Tropical Health Alliance Foundation have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $426,643 in grants to Tropical Health Alliance Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tropical Health Alliance Foundation?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $265,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tropical Health Alliance Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 10 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