California · Nonprofit
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,255 to it, the largest being THE SHINEMAKER FOUNDATION ($266,161). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $368k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $853k
What Valentino Achak Deng Foundation does
Mission
The Valentino Achak Deng Foundation (vad) is a us-based non-profit organization working to increase access to education in post-conflict south sudan by constructing and operating schools, libraries, teacher-training institutes, and community (continued on schedule o) centers. Beyond traditional classroom education, the foundation offers a variety of extracurricular activities designed to help students develop leadership skills and engage in community service including: student government, drama and debate clubs, competitive sports programs, and social action groups.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the vad foundation sponsored a total of 381 girls enrolled in its elementary and high school programs. Known as vadf girl scholars, the group includes 189 elementary students and 192 high school students who are studying in a secure, supportive learning environment at cornerstones vision academy in aweil, northern bahr el ghazal state. In addition, the foundation sponsored 15 learners pursuing vocational training at the affiliated don bosco center in wau, western bahr el ghazal. These students are training in essential fields such as carpentry, masonry, mechanics, electrical work, and ict. All vocational learners are expected to graduate in december 2025, after which some will be engaged by the foundation to support its education and community livelihood programs.
$289,486 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,486.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $919k (−12%).
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: 2021 53% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Valentino Achak Deng
Executive director/co-founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $96k → $60k.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 66% · 2019 50% · 2020 23% · 2021 60% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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
31% of VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION'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
71% of VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 VALENTINO ACHAK DENG 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 VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION?
- VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,255 to it, the largest being THE SHINEMAKER FOUNDATION ($266,161). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,038,255 in grants to VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION?
- THE SHINEMAKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $266,161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALENTINO ACHAK DENG 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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