Texas · Nonprofit
ARISE AFRICA INC
ARISE AFRICA INC (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,514,208 to it, the largest being KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ($2,773,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Arise Africa Inc does
Mission
To assist impoverished orphans in zambia, africa and support organizations with similar purposes that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Orphanage - arise africa finished building the first zambian orphanage in august 2012 and moved children into the home in december 2012. The organization completed and began running a second orphanage in 2016.
$507,945 spentof which $32,019 as grants33% of program spendingAfrica team scholarship - this fund provides scholarships to africans attending college.
$238,666 spentof which $17,573 as grants16% of program spendingMissionary trips - arise africa frequently takes americans on mission trips where they teach bible camps, organize the orphanages and work with the many community partners in zambia for the benefit of the orphans and vulnerable children.
$299,035 spentof which $23,690 as grants20% of program spendingChild sponsorship program - the organization sponsors children's school fees, healthcare, clothes, and a daily meal.
$213,851 spentof which $11,740 as grants14% of program spendingAfrican office operations - this fund is used to pay the african staff salaries, care and maintain the car, and for other general administrative expenses in zambia.
$97,618 spentof which $15,393 as grants6% of program spendingChristmas catalog - each year the organization produces a hardcopy and an online version of a catalog from which donors may purchase items for a zambian child.
$11,907 spentof which $1,158 as grants1% of program spendingChild feeding programs - this program works within schools to provide meals for children. This program is for children outside of the child sponsorship program.
$4,708 spentof which $155 as grants0% of program spendingSchool supplies - this program helps purchase textbooks, desks, chairs, chalkboards, and other items that schools need in africa.
$158,850 spentof which $120 as grants10% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,532,580.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.5M to $9.0M (+20%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ARISE AFRICA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Alissa Rosebrough
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Williams
Board president/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $636k → $616k.
13 of 39 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 ARISE AFRICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
ARISE AFRICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 ARISE AFRICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 78% · 2019 76% · 2020 59% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
64% of ARISE AFRICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
99% of ARISE AFRICA INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ARISE AFRICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARISE AFRICA 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARISE AFRICA 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 ARISE AFRICA INC?
- ARISE AFRICA INC (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,514,208 to it, the largest being KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ($2,773,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARISE AFRICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,514,208 in grants to ARISE AFRICA INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARISE AFRICA INC?
- KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE is the largest funder on record, with $2,773,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARISE AFRICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 39 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