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ETCH for Africa

ETCH for Africa (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being LIFE FOUNDATION ($22,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$155k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$101k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What ETCH for Africa does

Mission

Support the Mashiah Care Initiative and the Petra Care Initiative in Nigeria in their broad work among children, orphans, people living with HIV AIDS, internally displaced children due to religious violence, and women affected by violence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supported the Mashiah Care Initiative and the Petra Care Initiative in Nigeria in their broad work among children, orphans, people living with HIV AIDS, internally displaced children due to religious violence, and women affected by violence.

    $55,000 spentof which $55,000 as grants$154,514 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,000.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ETCH for 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.

Where its funders are

ETCH for Africa draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Against its field

ETCH for Africa runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin64% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.9mo · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ETCH for Africa: 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 ETCH for Africa?
ETCH for Africa (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being LIFE FOUNDATION ($22,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ETCH for Africa have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $22,000 in grants to ETCH for Africa.
Who is the largest funder of ETCH for Africa?
LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ETCH for Africa find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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