Maryland · Nonprofit
A IS FOR AFRICA LTD
A IS FOR AFRICA LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,828 to it, the largest being THE ETHEL & JOSEPH SPATZ FOUNDATION INC ($70,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $45k
What A Is for Africa Ltd does
Mission
A is for Africa is an educational foundation focusing education and health among the Maasai people of Tanzania East Africa. Our primary work involves providing educational support to the local government schools in the way of a school lunch program, a library, a computer lab, safe drinking water, and a girls health & hygiene program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
When A is for Africa began in 2012 the passage rate of primary school children on the national exam was 22%. Over the last five years the passage rate for this exam has approached and exceeded most years at the 90% passing rate.
$0 spentof which $66,946 as grants
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $81k to $62k (−24%).
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 A IS FOR AFRICA LTD’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 A IS FOR AFRICA LTD’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
A IS FOR AFRICA LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
A IS FOR AFRICA LTD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
A IS FOR AFRICA LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like A IS FOR AFRICA LTD
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A IS FOR AFRICA LTD: 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 A IS FOR AFRICA LTD?
- A IS FOR AFRICA LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,828 to it, the largest being THE ETHEL & JOSEPH SPATZ FOUNDATION INC ($70,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A IS FOR AFRICA LTD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $70,828 in grants to A IS FOR AFRICA LTD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A IS FOR AFRICA LTD?
- THE ETHEL & JOSEPH SPATZ FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A IS FOR AFRICA LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2 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