Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC
AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,300,292 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $925k
What African Collaborative Inc does
Mission
African collaborative's mission is to provide african-led organizations with vital resources to create purposeful, locally rooted change. We advocate for structural transformation in philanthropy and development to promote equitable funding practices that shift resources to the frontlines of impact.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The African Visionary Fund was fiscally sponsored by Myriad USA (formerly KBFUS, King Baudouin Foundation United States) from August 2020 until present. This fiscal sponsorship was structured similar to a Donor-Advised Fund. We are in the process of closing our account with Myriad and plan to close by the end of 2024. All of our income and expenditure that was received and spent by Myriad USA has been reported by Myriad USA in their 990s from 2020 to 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
While African Visionary Fund continues to strive to achieve their mission, all programatic work in 2023 was through their fiscal sponsor, Myriad USA formerly known as King Baudouin Foundation United States. Almost all programatic revenue and expenses have been recorded and reported by their fiscal sponsor. African Visionary Fund received their 501c3 in 2023, and opened a separate bank account to begin the separation process from the fiscal sponsor. Any revenue or expenses that came into African Visionary Fund's new bank account has been reported on this 990.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants$2,806,169 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $3.3M (+17%).
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 COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Melizsa Mugyenyi
Chair/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 COLLABORATIVE 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 COLLABORATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 COLLABORATIVE 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 COLLABORATIVE INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC has grown faster than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE 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 COLLABORATIVE INC?
- AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,300,292 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,300,292 in grants to AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 15 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