Illinois · Nonprofit
FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION
FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,883,512 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($950,725). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Faraja Fund Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Faraja Fund Foundation is to provide opportunity, hope, and health for children with physical disabilities in Tanzania. It does this primarily by funding the Faraja Primary School, which offers education, health care, and physical therapy, and through the new Faraja Forward initiative, which extends community health and support programs into more remote villages. The ultimate goal is to empower graduates to become self-sufficient adults who can contribute to their families and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Faraja Fund Foundation supports the operations of Faraja Primary School for Children with Physical Disabilities in Sanja Juu, Tanzania. Faraja is a residential primary school, grades K-8. 100 children attend the school and receive an excellent primary school education, health care, vocational training and round-the-clock emotional and physical support. Faraja Fund Foundation supports the operations of Faraja Forward, which provides medical and psychosocial support, community health worker training, and advocacy and outreach on behalf of disabled children and their families in the rural and far-rural villages of northern Tanzania.
$578,225 spentof which $362,894 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $578,225.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.1M (+30%).
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
David Tolmie
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $13k → $246k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION’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
FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 59% · 2019 40% · 2020 56% · 2021 75% · 2022 54% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
87% of FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION'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 $253k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION: 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 FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION?
- FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,883,512 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($950,725). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,883,512 in grants to FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $950,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION 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.
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 26 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