California · Nonprofit
AID AFRICA
AID AFRICA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,873 to it, the largest being AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Aid Africa does
Mission
Providing clean water, energy efficient cookstoves, planting trees, and health education in rural Uganda
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stoves. Aid Africa provides the materials and expertise for rural Ugandan communities to replace the dangerous and harmful open fires inside their mud huts with safer, locally produced, cleaner-burning and more fuel efficient cookstoves.
$47,382 spent31% of program spendingWater. Aid Africa provides communities in rural Uganda with clean water wells and sheltered springs that eliminate the need for women and children to walk long distances to fetch water from open springs that are often parasite-infested health hazards, shared with other animals.
$52,886 spent35% of program spendingTrees. Aid Africa distributes saplings of fruit trees and fast-growing trees for shade and branch harvest in rural Uganda. These trees provide nutrition, fuel for cooking, shelter from the sun, and sometimes a small income from selling surplus fruit.
$20,537 spent13% of program spendingHealth. Aid Africa provides health information, including reproductive health and domestic abuse prevention, at stove and tree distributions, and collaborates with regional health officials to sponsor community health fairs which include immunizations, screenings and prevention education for malaria and AIDS, and health check-ups that may lead to referrals for treatment.
$13,423 spent9% of program spendingHumanitarian Tours. Aid Africa provides educational tours to interested Americans who pay their own way to learn about conditions in Uganda and how Aid Africa functions there,
$19,059 spent12% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $153,287.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $32k to $8k (−76%).
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 AID AFRICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Nancy Bacon
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $204.
1 of 5 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 AID AFRICA’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
AID AFRICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 AID AFRICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 62% · 2021 95% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — 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
83% of AID AFRICA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $948 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
AID AFRICA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AID AFRICA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AID AFRICA: 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 AID AFRICA?
- AID AFRICA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,873 to it, the largest being AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AID AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $97,873 in grants to AID AFRICA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AID AFRICA?
- AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AID AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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