Minnesota · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION
FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,587 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ($1,186,142). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $581k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $425k
What Friends of East Africa Foundation does
Mission
To raise funds for basic needs of the people of east africa, with a particular focus on uganda
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundations sole purpose is to raise funds for basic human needs in the areas of healthcare and education for the people of east africa, with a focus on uganda for continued hospital construction and equipment axquisition for the gary holmes hospital that began operations on march 21, 2013. Hope medical clinics uganda furthers the foundations goal of meeting basic healthcare needs for the people of uganda. Hope medical clinics and ruth gaylord hospital are general hospital with special attention given to maternal and pediatric care due to the high maternal and infant morality rates in uganda
$301,354 spent$581,181 earned by the program65% of program spendingThe foundation provides scholarship support for african students located uganda, the united states, and canada.
$159,964 spent35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $461,318.
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 2017 to 2018, from $385k to $90k (−77%).
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 EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $202k → $429k.
10 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 EAST AFRICA 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
FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 75% · 2019 48% · 2020 96% · 2021 61% · 2022 78% · 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.
How long its funders stay
10% of FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
65% of FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA 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 $898k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION?
- FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,587 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ($1,186,142). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,543,587 in grants to FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION?
- CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $1,186,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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