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BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP

BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($17). 1 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 FY2021
$194
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$17
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Books for South Africa Project Nfp does

Mission

This organization is formed to share with the children of south africa the importance of education and the joy of reading by giving them books and other learnings materials and to establish libraries in south african communities.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Accumulation of books for donation to libraries in south africa.

    $2,870 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,870.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2k) Expenses 100 ($832) Net assets 100 ($3k)2018 Revenue 66 ($1k) Expenses 183 ($2k) Net assets 88 ($3k)2019 Revenue 30 ($511) Expenses 200 ($2k) Net assets 55 ($2k)2020 Revenue 64 ($1k) Expenses 30 ($247) Net assets 79 ($3k)2021 Revenue 11 ($194) Expenses 351 ($3k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (11)Expenses (351)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3k to $0 (−100%).

$3k
$3k
$2k
$3k
$0
20172018201920202021
Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$862
’17
−$411
’18
−$1k
’19
$829
’20
−$3k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $12.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 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 BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP’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.

Where its funders are

100% of BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP?
BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($17). 1 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 BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17 in grants to BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 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