California · Nonprofit
Asante Africa Foundation Inc
Asante Africa Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,687,114 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,055,695). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Asante Africa Foundation Inc does
Mission
To educate and empower the next generation of change agents, whose dreams and actions transform the future for Africa and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Accelerated Learning in Classroom and Scholarships: These programs provide teachers with Learner-Centered Educational Models, intensive teacher training, and digital & low-cost resources with a focus on creating a highly engaging learning environment for students and the support teachers need. The Scholarship program is merit based for low-income families from rural East Africa.
$386,049 spentof which $373,364 as grants40% of program spendingIn addition to its core Youth Livelihoods, Accelerated Learning and Scholarship, and Wezesha Vijana/Girls Advancement programs, the organization provides cross-cutting program support that strengthens implementation, participant retention, and long-term impact across all program areas. This support includes community and family engagement, peer mentoring, collaboration with local educators and youth leaders, and follow-up by field staff to help participants remain connected to school, training, and opportunity pathways. The organization also invests in monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities to track outcomes, improve program design and delivery, and identify practices that can be sustained and scaled in rural East Africa. These support functions reinforce the organizations three principal programs by improving quality, accountability, continuity of services, and community ownership.
$341,727 spentof which $317,705 as grants35% of program spendingYouth Livelihoods Program: This program has strong emphasis on preparing youth to develop strong personal management skills, strengthening job readiness, entrepreneurship and leadership skills. Asante Africa empowers a new generation of youth in East Africa through skills, hands-on learning and opportunities.
$193,244 spentof which $191,204 as grants20% of program spendingWezesha Vijana (Girls Advancement): This program directly addresses hurdles to educational attainment, to keep the youth moving forward for academic learning as well as knowledge application of classroom education. This includes keeping children coming to school by providing supporting infrastructure, sanitation services and a school-based hygiene training.
$55,795 spentof which $53,332 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $976,815.
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 $763k to $1.5M (+90%).
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.
98% of Asante Africa Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
Monica Hahn
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $66k → $417k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Asante Africa Foundation 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
Asante Africa Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Asante Africa Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 40% · 2019 50% · 2020 21% · 2021 75% · 2022 48% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Asante Africa Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
53% of Asante Africa Foundation Inc'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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside California, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Asante Africa Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves 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 Asante Africa Foundation 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Asante Africa Foundation 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 Asante Africa Foundation Inc?
- Asante Africa Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,687,114 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,055,695). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Asante Africa Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,687,114 in grants to Asante Africa Foundation Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Asante Africa Foundation Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,055,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Asante Africa Foundation Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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