DKT’s 2025 Audited Financials

Dear Friend of DKT,

We’re proud to share DKT’s 2025 audited financial numbers, which highlight how DKT International has weathered a challenging year and tighter funding climate.  DKT remains in healthy financial shape, generating more self-earned revenue, strengthening a sustainability-oriented mindset, and building on cost-effectiveness that delivers impact at scale. September marks World Sexual Health Month, and the financial numbers below directly reflect DKT’s impact; whether it’s running a family planning floating clinic reaching remote towns in the Philippines, or launching a new hormonal IUD, opening options for women in Nigeria. 

Every graph and data point reflects how DKT is expanding access to reproductive freedom globally.  

We closed 2025 with $255.3 million in sales revenue against $312.0 million in expenses; our ‘Sustain-O-Meter’, the share of operational costs covered by sales, remained steady overall at 82%. In lower-income countries where the need is greater, our sales cover a smaller percentage of these expenses (see graphs below).  

DKT procured over $147 million in contraceptives last year, largely with our own funds, continuing a track record as one of the largest procurers of reproductive health products in the world. DKT products are sold and the earned income is used to re-purchase more commodities, meaning that donors do not generally have to cover most of those expenses. 

None of that progress happens without donors choosing, year after year, to back it. Your donations go directly where they are needed most: local programs. Our headquarters team is lean, with overhead costs comprising 1.4% of DKT’s budget and fundraising costs at a fraction of that, ensuring a strong return on your investment. Below you’ll find some key performance graphs, along with a bit more detail on what’s driving them.

Audited financials tell a story of DKT’s continued growth

For over three decades, DKT’s model still comes down to a simple idea: deliver real impact, sustainably over time. That story shows clearly in the graph below. The red line tracks our total expenses, the blue line tracks revenue generated from the sale of products and services, and the green line tracks a three-year running average of external donor funds. In 2016, sales revenue sat at $120.5 million; in 2025, it’s more than doubled to $255.3 million, all while donor funding has remained relatively flat.

That trajectory reflects the enduring power of donor investment: philanthropy remains vital to launching new programs and reaching underserved markets, but as our earned revenue scales, the same donor dollars go further each year—multiplying your impact rather than simply sustaining it.  DKT’s social enterprise business model has never been stronger and more relevant. 

An overview of Sales Results from 2014–2025 is also available on our website.

The Sustain-O-Meter: our scorecard for financial independence

At DKT we track financial performance with our ‘Sustain-O-Meter’ — the percentage of operational costs that sales revenue covers. The higher that number, the less a program depends on donor dollars to keep running, and the more of that donor support can go toward things sales alone can’t fund, like awareness campaigns and reaching harder-to-serve communities.

Globally, that number hit 82% in 2025. A number of our country programs have crossed into sustainable programming, and the extra revenue those offices generate gets reinvested – funding expansion into new markets, supporting lower-income programs, and backing riskier bets that donor funding alone wouldn’t cover.

Sustainability varies by program. In 2025, Ethiopia (86%), Nigeria (73%), and the East Africa regional program (71%) led the way across DKT’s programs in Africa , while newer or harder-to-reach markets like Mozambique (35%) and DR Congo (38%) are earlier in their journey toward self-sufficiency.

To see what this sustainability journey looks like in practice, read our case study, “Pioneering Sustainable Reproductive Health Solutions Since 1989“

What support drives: more contraceptive protection at lower cost

Across our programs, DKT delivered 70.1 million Couple Years of Protection (CYPs) worldwide in 2025 — and it cost just $0.95 per CYP, on average. That’s up slightly from $0.88 in 2024 as commodity and operating costs have risen, but it still demonstrates significant progress compared to where we started: $38.77 per CYP back in 1990, a 98% reduction over 35 years.

Much of that efficiency traces back to DKT’s scale and reach. DKT is one of the largest private purchasers of contraceptive and reproductive health commodities anywhere, and because we fund most of that purchasing ourselves, donor dollars can go straight to the harder problems: last-mile delivery, underserved communities, and the populations that commercial markets tend to skip. It’s also why our overhead stays lean: headquarters and fundraising costs remain a small slice of the total (under 2% – greatly less than general industry benchmarks), so more of what you give ends up funding work in the field, not in Washington.

Have a donor-advised fund (DAF)? Help DKT match your gift by October 8! 

Good ideas are worth a second read. Here are a couple of past stories still shaping how we think about our work:

• Where are all the families in family planning? Time to refresh the brand.
• Contraceptive Use: Estimating DKT’s Contribution in Key Countries – Part I and Part II
• Phil Harvey Impact Fund Results