New York · Nonprofit
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,760,634 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,000,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Amref Health Africa Inc Inc (Amref) does
Mission
Amref's mission is to empower the people of africa, through better health, to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health training and advocacy - in pursuit of bolstering people-centered health systems throughout africa, amref focuses on enhancing the capabilities of both new and existing healthcare professionals at all levels, including clinical officers, nurses, midwives, lab technicians, and others. This endeavor often involves leveraging innovative e- and m-learning solutions to ensure that the health workforce remains adept at addressing present and future healthcare challenges. Moreover, amref empowers community health workers to conduct household visits, deliver basic health services, disseminate health information, and facilitate referrals to health facilities for advanced care when necessary. To promote sustainability, amref advocates to ministries of health for increased investment in health worker training and compensation. Additionally, amref engages in capacity-building initiatives aimed at nurturing a resilient civil society by providing training and mentorship to local community-based organizations and advocates, with a particular emphasis on empowering young people as catalysts for positive change within their communities.
$3,177,240 spentof which $3,025,971 as grants38% of program spendingPrimary health care - amref is committed to its core mission of ensuring accessible, high-quality primary healthcare for communities throughout africa. The organization's primary care initiatives are comprehensive, addressing all aspects crucial to overall health and wellbeing across all stages of life. Amref focuses on expanding access to essential healthcare services for women, particularly during pregnancy and postpartum, to safeguard both maternal and infant health. Similarly, its children's health programs encompass interventions in homes, schools, and healthcare facilities, employing an integrated approach to meet the diverse healthcare needs of children. Additionally, amref empowers healthcare workers to provide reproductive health education to women and their partners, while also educating both girls and boys on reproductive health to enable informed decision-making. Nutrition interventions are seamlessly integrated into amref's programs as part of its holistic health approach. Furthermore, the organization endeavors to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, such as hiv/aids, tb, malaria, ebola, and covid-19, through education, immunization services, and robust…
$5,223,093 spentof which $5,088,842 as grants62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,400,333.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $11M (+201%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 43% · 2018 53% · 2019 52% · 2020 34% · 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2023 6% · 2024 18% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Robert Kelty
Executive director
Board chair
Robert Wolk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $7.4M.
14 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 87% · 2019 61% · 2020 27% · 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 54% — 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
55% of AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.8M
- Agency for International Development$3.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)?
- AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,760,634 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,000,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $53,760,634 in grants to AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF), 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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