Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC
FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,183 to it, the largest being JOHN P AND ANNE WELSH MCNULTY FOUNDATION ($109,806). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Friends of Bulungula Inc does
Mission
To award grants to organizations that serve rural communities, with a particular focus on South Africa and the Mbhashe municipality.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Grants of $50,000 awarded to Bulungula Incubator, a South African Non-Profit Association with legal personality. The grant is used to fund the Bulungula Incubator's projects, initiatives and programs which promote charitable, educational and health initiatives and programs that relieve poverty and promote education, clean water, career development, and better nutrition for children and adults living in the rural South African municipality of Mbhashe. A Grants from Friends of Bulungula of $10,000 awarded to Ukhanyo Foundation, a Non-Profit Organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. Ukhanyo Foundation was founded with the dream of a future in which South African youth in townships can pursue their ambitions, confidently seek to better their lives, and break the cycle of poverty. A grant of $21,903 was awarded to South African non-profit FUEL (Feed. Educate. Uplift. Love.) whose mission is to work within South Africa's Department of Education to co-create and implement the Monitoring, Reporting and Response (MRR) methodology, to support and hold schools accountable in providing nutritious meals on time to over 9 million students.
$0 spentof which $81,903 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $29k (+417%).
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 FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC’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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5 → $49k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA 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
FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 43% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA 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 Washington
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC: 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 FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC?
- FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,183 to it, the largest being JOHN P AND ANNE WELSH MCNULTY FOUNDATION ($109,806). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $247,183 in grants to FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC?
- JOHN P AND ANNE WELSH MCNULTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $109,806 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BULUNGULA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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