Colorado · Nonprofit
Friends of Kowak
Friends of Kowak (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,340 to it, the largest being RUTH & WILLIAM MERKEY FOUNDATION ($62,340). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Friends of Kowak does
Programs
In the field of Education Assistance Friends of Kowak FOK partners with private and public schools in Northwest Tanzania to provide financial aid volunteer support and communication assistance. The main objective is to help underprivileged students access educational opportunities. By working closely with school leaders and community members FOK identifies students in need assesses their eligibility for aid and ensures support reaches them effectively. FOKs committed team oversees fund distribution monitors academic performance and offers mentorship to recipients. Regular communication is upheld to provide continuous guidance. During the reporting period FOK assisted 45 students in schools like Kowak Girls School Baraton Girango and Angel House. This holistic approach guarantees that disadvantaged students receive quality education and the necessary tools to excel academically.
$31,574 spentKowak Hospital Support: FOK assists Kowak Hospital administrators and staff to identify equipment and infrastructure needs to design and construct or contract for construction of facilities. This program also administers monthly payments to purchase and distribute nourishment supplements including milk and cereal to infants and children approx 70 children enrolled in the program exposed to HIV or who have been diagnosed with AIDS through the hospitals regional HIV AIDS outpatient clinic.
$19,640 spentFriends of Kowak provides funds and volunteer time to provide financial assistance to needy families and children including health and education support. A small stipend is paid to a local administrator to manage such funds and to mentor supported students and monitor their school performance. Masubi managed students
$20,245 spentWith donations received from a Catholic Parish in Idaho Friends of Kowak provided financial support for various activities at the St. Brigita Catholic Mission Church in Kowak Tanzania including automobile expenses for parish priests to visit outstation churches financing youth retreats and funding church building repair.s
$5,394 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $33k to $61k (+87%).
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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Kowak’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
Friends of Kowak draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Friends of Kowak has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,305 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Kowak
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Kowak: 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 Kowak?
- Friends of Kowak (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,340 to it, the largest being RUTH & WILLIAM MERKEY FOUNDATION ($62,340). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Kowak have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $62,340 in grants to Friends of Kowak, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Kowak?
- RUTH & WILLIAM MERKEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Kowak 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing