California · Nonprofit
UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION
UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,306 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($119,505). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Uyghur Projects Foundation does
Mission
Public Charity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided financial support to the weekly YouTube video programming service in Uyghur language produced by UYGHURINFO.org (UIC) - a subsidiary of Uyghur Projects Foundation, published 120 videos in 2025 at www.youtube.com/@UyghurAxbaratMerkizi. The purpose of this video service: (1) To explain the world's views on the Uyghur issues, analyze and debate the possible future developments, and help the Uyghurs to understand the world. (2) To promote Uyghur history, culture, heritage and the Uyghur identity to increase confidence and ethnic pride of the Uyghurs in diaspora. (3) To monitor China's treatments of Uyghurs and find the leading indicators for further destruction of Uyghur culture, identity and lives. (4) To inform the Uyghurs in diaspora of the major developments around the world to help them keep up with the rest of the world.
$19,851 spentof which $19,851 as grants36% of program spendingPublication cost for the online Journal "The Uyghurs - The Magazine of Uyghur Culture and Survival" (https://uyghursfoundation.org/uyghur/), 5 issues published in 2025.
$12,987 spentof which $12,987 as grants24% of program spendingFinancial aid for Uyghur children's education in Istanbul, Turkiye (Total 48 students benefited, grade levels from kindergarten to college level).
$8,797 spentof which $8,797 as grants16% of program spendingOther program services (describe in Schedule O): $2,889 Uyghur Projects Foundationd adminstrative expense. $10,600 Publishing & translation costs for two Uyghur books by 2 Authors, "IMPRISONED SOULS" by Aziz Isa Elkun and "ULAR NIME DEYDU" by Abduweli Ayup. $100 Donated to World Uyghur Congress Uyghur Women's Dialogue meeting (Germany). Grand total = $13,589
$13,589 spentof which $13,589 as grants25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,224.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $106k (+39%).
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.
100% of UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $45k.
5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 UYGHUR PROJECTS 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
UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of UYGHUR PROJECTS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
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 UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION: 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 UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION?
- UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,306 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($119,505). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $191,306 in grants to UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UYGHUR PROJECTS FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $119,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UYGHUR PROJECTS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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