North Carolina · Nonprofit
CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC
CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,864,529 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($854,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $912k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $461k
What Congo Initiative USA Inc does
Mission
The mission of congo initiative usa is to promote christian higher education, leadership formation, and community transformation in the democratic republic of congo (drc). This mission will be accomplished by, among other means, providing financial and personnel support for congo initiative - universite chretienne bilingue du congo, an education institution organized and existing under the laws of the drc.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Accomplishment 1 - education, leadership and community transformation accomplishment includes: - providing formal education and training to nurture ethical leaders to be agents of change throughout the congolese society. - providing professional development for teachers and staff to equip them with pedagogical skills. - providing primary and secondary education for congo's youngest learners. - promote justice and strengthen families and communities in congo via profesional individual and group conseling, parenting seminars, ethnic reconciliation and peacebuilding activities, pro-bono legal services, econonomic development and more.
$155,091 spentof which $155,091 as grants17% of program spendingAccomplishment 2 - facilities and infrastructure accomplishment includes: - develop and maintain property and infrastructure which support the organization's programs and accomplishments.
$123 spentof which $123 as grants0% of program spendingAccomplishment 3 - partnership development and capacity building accomplishment includes: - provide awareness-raising activities for the general public about congo, as well as develop, strengthen, and expand partnerships with individuals, institutions (universities), foundations and churches across the world. - the above will be accomplished by teaching others on the history and current context of dr congo to deepen their engagement with the lives of congolese christians. Stories, data collections, monitoring and evaluation reports will all be used to teach others and raise awareness.
$12,600 spentof which $12,600 as grants1% of program spendingSupporting services through management and general administrative services along with fundraising services.
$738,089 spent81% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $905,903.
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 2017 to 2018, from $263k to $945k (+260%).
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: 2020 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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
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
Julie Bryce
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $173k → $199k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 CONGO INITIATIVE USA 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
CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 72% · 2019 47% · 2020 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 70% · 2023 30% — 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
53% of CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
67% of CONGO INITIATIVE USA 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 $956k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CONGO INITIATIVE USA 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC?
- CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,864,529 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($854,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,864,529 in grants to CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $854,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 20 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