Arizona · Nonprofit
EQUIPPING AFRICA
EQUIPPING AFRICA (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,816 to it, the largest being DEW FOUNDATION ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Equipping Africa does
Mission
Provide healthcare services and education in Africa
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Equipping Africa Maternal Newborn Community Health - Missionary trainings for embedded missionaries in high need areas. Multiple new community health units supported Disaster Response with the Flooding in Maai Mahu. MNCH team members continue to teach qualitative research methods as a short course being offered 2-3 times a year to build up Kijabe Hospitals Research Capacity. MNCH team members teach a quality improvement component of the healthcare worker week-long training on non-communicable diseases that is offered multiple times a year.
$1,716 spent2% of program spendingInfectious Diseases: Funded through Equipping Africa - Development of a web-based platform for teaching infectious diseases from actual cases (https://infectiousdiseasesafrica.com/login/index.php). Sign in as student.one with password; Student@123. Antibiotic resistance for a bacteria (Mycoplasma genitalium) that is a common cause of sexually transmitted infection throughout the world. This will be the first analysis of resistance levels in sub-Saharan Africa and will help guide treatment of patients with this infection. A graduate student is doing this as her research project and will submit a dissertation and also submit for publication. Other research and teaching accomplishments - Analysis of the impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) training for medical officers at the AKU outreach clinics: This project includes the rollout and evaluation of an online AMS course designed especially for medical officers and also offered to pharmacists at the clinics. In addition, quantitative surveys of patients and qualitative assessment of knowledge and attitudes regarding AMS and AMR are being done; as of the end of 2024, the latter was submitted for publication by a pediatric resident…
$59,891 spentof which $55,870 as grants58% of program spendingAfrican Consortium for Quality Improvement Research (ACQUIRE) in Front line Health - The Africa Consortium for Quality Improvement Research in Frontline Health Care (ACQUIRE) is a not-for-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. ACQUIRE is working towards empowering frontline healthcare workers and their institutions to apply continuous evidence-based quality improvement The ACQUIRE consortium is jointly led by Kijabe Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital and takes a team-based, learning-by-research approach to Quality Improvement. Still in its nascent phase, ACQUIREs fiduciary operations are supported by the Africa Mission Healthcare (AMH) along with a Board of Directors that includes representatives from the co-founding health care institutions. Equipping Africa 501c3 has given startup funding to help this initiative grow. In 2024 the fourth year of operations ACQUIRE continued work on several significant engagements and continued work on a QI curriculum. ACQUIREs donor base has substantially expanded leveraging the investments made in early years. 1. ACQUIRE Theory Leadership course, in 2024 had excellent results in building capacity in healthcare workers in multiple…
$42,274 spentof which $35,000 as grants41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,881.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $75k to $52k (−31%).
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 EQUIPPING AFRICA’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. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 EQUIPPING AFRICA’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
EQUIPPING AFRICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
43% 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 EQUIPPING AFRICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
EQUIPPING AFRICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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.
Against its field
EQUIPPING AFRICA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like EQUIPPING AFRICA
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EQUIPPING AFRICA?
- EQUIPPING AFRICA (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,816 to it, the largest being DEW FOUNDATION ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUIPPING AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $218,816 in grants to EQUIPPING AFRICA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUIPPING AFRICA?
- DEW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUIPPING AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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