Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AMANI FOUNDATION
AMANI FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,893 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,987). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Amani Foundation does
Mission
The Amani Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports at-risk children and families in northern Tanzania through a family-based care model. The organization provides access to education, psychosocial support, and community-based livelihood programs that strengthen household stability and prevent family separation. Programs include school sponsorship, case management, and nutrition-focused initiatives such as small livestock and garden support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During 2025, the organization transitioned from a residential children's home model to a family-based care approach. The children's home was closed, and children were reintegrated into family environments. Program services shifted to supporting children within their households through education sponsorship, case management, psychosocial support, and community-based livelihood programs that strengthen family stability and prevent separation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The organization supported children in approximately 30 families through direct education assistance, including payment of school fees, provision of uniforms and learning materials, and ongoing case management. Staff conducted regular follow-up with students and caregivers to support school attendance, academic progress, and wellbeing. This program focused on ensuring uninterrupted access to education for vulnerable children and reducing the risk of family separation due to financial hardship.
$62,023 spent72% of program spendingThe organization implemented household-level livelihood programs to support participating families through small livestock distribution and nutrition-focused agriculture. Activities included provision of goats and chickens, establishment of keyhole gardens, and basic training in animal care and food production. These interventions improved household food security and income stability, reducing economic pressures that can contribute to child-family separation.
$17,601 spent20% of program spendingThe organization provided targeted health and wellbeing support to children and families through coverage of basic medical expenses and monitoring of child health outcomes. Assistance included payment for clinic visits, medications, and emergency care housing when needed. These services helped ensure that children remained healthy and able to attend school, while reducing financial strain on caregivers and supporting stable family environments.
$6,468 spent8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $86,092.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $48k to $96k (+101%).
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 AMANI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Katharine Thompson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $35k → $31k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 AMANI FOUNDATION’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
AMANI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 AMANI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 53% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of AMANI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of AMANI FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $58k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AMANI FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMANI FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 AMANI FOUNDATION: 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 AMANI FOUNDATION?
- AMANI FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,893 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,987). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMANI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $196,893 in grants to AMANI FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMANI FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMANI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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