New York · Nonprofit
ZARA AINA INC
ZARA AINA INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,728 to it, the largest being KATE CASSIDY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $287k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Zara Aina Inc does
Mission
Zara Aina helps at-risk children expand their capacity for achievement through theatrical performance and storytelling.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Company & Antananarivo Clubhouse: The Center provided Zara Ainas signature theatrical and dance programming. The Zara Aina Center continued their partnerships with fellow NGO, Manda, the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Antananarivo, The British School, and the local grocery chain, Bii (formerly Foodwise), Diary Nofy: a project of Teach for Madagascar, and Un Enfant Par La Main. The students continued taking English and French classes and doing vigorous test prep throughout 2024. The Malagasy Staff exposed the students to numerous professional arts workshops (ex. film class). There was a death of one of our students and we built a bench in her honor. (there is a wire transfer for this) The ZA 4th years took a tour to and around Toliara. There is an additional wire transfer for this in July.The ZA team takes on 40 new students into the first year program.United StatesAt the end of June, a team of 8 teachers returned to Camden, Alabama for a week-long workshop and original show with 40 students in the BAMA Kids organization. They created a beautiful show about DREAMS.Caroline, Deirdre, and Henry went to Madagascar with CultureConnect in July for 3 weeks. There are not a lot of…
$68,611 spentof which $27,545 as grants100% of program spendingMobile Library: Launched in 2016 in partnership with the UK-based Vape Club, Zara Ainas Mobile Library project distributes useful books to rural villages across four regions of Madagascar. The books focus on practical knowledge such as ways to improve agricultural practices, family relations and health, environmental issues, sexual health, DIY and trades. In 2018, the Mobile Library continued to distribute seeds and fruit trees to participating communities, along with literature about care and cultivation.When the Library is not actively engaged in a tour, the van is used by Zara Aina staff to transport the Youth Company and Zara Aina oversees the overall operation of the Program and provides administrative support to Library staff.
Zara Aina-workshops:The US teaching artist taught at the annual Madagascar Day at Rhinebeck School.Artists created scenes from a folktale with roughly 50 middle school students.
MADA New Center: Through numerous COVID-related delays, the Staff continued working through the threestages of obtaining building permits to begin construction on the new permanent ZaraAina Center, for which we completed our Capital Campaign at the end of 2020. Theycompleted all permits and began construction on the New Center. By December 2022,the staff broke ground, completing a Malagasy ritual to bless the land.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,611.
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 2017 to 2018, from $129k to $51k (−61%).
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 ZARA AINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $42k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ZARA AINA INC’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
ZARA AINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 54% · 2022 58% · 2023 35% — 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
75% of ZARA AINA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ZARA AINA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ZARA AINA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 ZARA AINA 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 ZARA AINA INC?
- ZARA AINA INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,728 to it, the largest being KATE CASSIDY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZARA AINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $286,728 in grants to ZARA AINA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZARA AINA INC?
- KATE CASSIDY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZARA AINA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 7 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