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AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC
AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being LUDWICK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $46k
What African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network Inc does
Mission
Education, disaster prevention, injury prevention. ACLENet's mission is to decrease deaths, injuries and property damage from lighting across Africa. It does this through designing and installing lightning protection systems at schools, public and school education, working with the national government, research and publication of results at national and international meetings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
School Lightning Protection Program - design, installation and repairs of lightning protection systems at schools we have protected since 2016. Ludwick Family Foundation grant ($50,000 awarded late 2023) paid for most of these.
$44,853 spentof which $50,000 as grants57% of program spendingSchool, district and public education about lightning safety including the grassroot Ugandan national lightning safety advocacy teams and social media campaigns.
$18,225 spent23% of program spendingResearch - collection of lightning injury and property damage reports across Africa, investigation of mass casualty incidents caused by lightning, reporting our research (abstract and presentation fees, travel to report at international meetings etc.)
$4,285 spent5% of program spendingLine 31 - other program services 11,450
$11,450 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,813.
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 $31k to $85k (+176%).
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 AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK 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
AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
32% 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 AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC.
“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
AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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
AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
50%
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 AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK 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 AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC?
- AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being LUDWICK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $73,500 in grants to AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC?
- LUDWICK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN CENTRES FOR LIGHTNING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2024), 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