Ohio · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC
FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,303). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Friends of Lesotho Inc does
Mission
The purpose of FOL is to serve as a point of contact and funding source for scholarships and grants to small development projects in Lesotho.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
(Mantsopa, Maseru, Maloti) Rotary Club funds used to assist with student tuition
$12,350 spent17% of program spendingWittenberg University Lesotho Trip - $2,500 to support the university's student service trip
$2,500 spent3% of program spendingMakoko Library Project - $6,300 to construct a school library
$6,300 spent9% of program spendingMOLETE Literacy Center - $19,245 to construct a literacy center
$19,245 spent27% of program spendingQacha's Nek Snake Park & Tourist Information Centre - $13,800 to renovate an outdoor dining space and kitchen for their visitor center
$13,800 spent19% of program spendingLesobeng Secondary School - $1,500 for a solar panel project
$1,500 spent2% of program spendingMary Margaret Centre - $3,800 for library & technology centre supplies
$3,800 spent5% of program spendingCharity English Medium School -$3,500 to construct 2 new classrooms and 2 new latrines
$3,500 spent5% of program spendingPeace Corps Partnership Program - $4,700 to support volunteer grants
$4,700 spent7% of program spendingHope Secondary School - $4,000 to help with the school's operational expenses
$4,000 spent6% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,695.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $94k to $143k (+52%).
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.
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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $280 → $251.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 LESOTHO 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 LESOTHO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 LESOTHO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LESOTHO 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC?
- FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,303). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,352 in grants to FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $16,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LESOTHO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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