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FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC

FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,764 to it, the largest being GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$165k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$501k
Net assets
$14k
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Far Away Friends Inc does

Mission

Far Away Friends exists to transform access to quality education in rural Uganda alongside local leaders.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Far Away Friends supports access to education and basic needs for children in rural Uganda through its partnership with Global Leaders Primary School. In 2025 the organization provided daily meals educational resources and operational support to approximately 450500 students including both boarding and day scholars.The program helps reduce barriers to school attendance by ensuring students receive consistent nutrition access to trained teachers and a safe learning environment. Support also includes teacher salaries school supplies and ongoing improvements to facilities and learning conditions.Through these efforts the organization works to improve educational outcomes and long-term opportunities for children in the Amolatar District.

    $164,335 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $164,335.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($107k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2019 Revenue 158 ($169k) Expenses 99 ($110k) Net assets 326 ($74k)2020 Revenue 146 ($156k) Expenses 157 ($175k) Net assets 241 ($55k)2021 Revenue 309 ($330k) Expenses 300 ($335k) Net assets 219 ($50k)2022 Revenue 355 ($378k) Expenses 331 ($369k) Net assets 257 ($59k)2023 Revenue 306 ($326k) Expenses 304 ($339k) Net assets 201 ($46k)2024 Revenue 295 ($314k) Expenses 312 ($348k) Net assets 54 ($12k)2025 Revenue 154 ($165k) Expenses 147 ($164k) Net assets 63 ($14k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (147)Net assets (63)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $46k to $12k (−73%).

$23k
$74k
$55k
$50k
$59k
$46k
$12k
$14k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,454 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$58k
’19
−$19k
’20
−$5k
’21
$9k
’22
−$13k
’23
−$33k
’24
$405
’25
0.4
months of
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

Jayme Ward

Co-Founder & Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

2021202220232024
Listed7727
Joined·+2··
No longer listed·2··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $91k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FAR AWAY FRIENDS 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

FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% 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 FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC.

30%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% — 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

60% of FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states in all.

ME
MI
NY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC?
FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,764 to it, the largest being GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $500,764 in grants to FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC?
GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing