California · Nonprofit
ASANTE SANA
ASANTE SANA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($190,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Asante Sana does
Mission
The purpose of Asante Sana is to give support to the children of tanzania. This support will be coordinated through file long established non-government organizations:1) light in africa2) huruma hospital3) the upendo club4) hope through opportunity-tanzania
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Funds contributed to Light In Africa, a childrens home in Boma founded by Lynn Elliott in 1999. There are currently 170 children under full time care including approximately 50 disabled children. We provide support for food, medical needs, school fees, infrastructure, and community needs.
$167,777 spent72% of program spendingFunds contributed to Mbhahe Primary School - an elementary school in a remote village on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. We have been leading teams of teachers there for 19 years bringing school supplies, building infrastructure, supporting teacher needs, and teaching classes to the over 700 students. We support some of the school administrators by funding needed equipment such as printers, computers, and school fees for family members.
$35,358 spent15% of program spendingFunds contributed to Father Aloyce - Minister of Health of the Catholic Diocese of Moshi. Fr. Aloyce oversees the needs of orphans in the Kilimanjaro region. Funds were previously sent through the Rainbow Center bank account but currently are sent through the KIVUCE Foundationboth accounts are part of the Catholic Diocese.
$30,268 spent13% of program spendingFunds contributed to Huruma Hospital - a regional 300 bed Catholic hospital. Over the last 19 years we have provided vital supplies for newborns and their mothers, built an ICU, purchased an ophthalmology surgical microscope, and provided much needed medical supplies.
$400 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $233,803.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9k to $22k (+149%).
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 ASANTE SANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $52k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SANA’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 SANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 ASANTE SANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ASANTE SANA'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 SANA has grown faster than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ASANTE SANA
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
95% 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 ASANTE SANA: 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 SANA?
- ASANTE SANA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($190,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASANTE SANA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $242,000 in grants to ASANTE SANA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASANTE SANA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASANTE SANA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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