Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC
FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,228 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($47,928). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $412k
What Friends of Liberia Inc does
Mission
Support education, health, and development projects relating to liberia
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Friends of Liberia (FOL) Education Committee continued its support of WE-CARE International,a Liberian-led nonprofit based in the greater Monrovia area. The Committee provides technical guidance, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation support, and financial assistance for WE-CAREs Family Literacy Initiative (FLI).In 2025, FLI continued to serve 5 communities through its two components: the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Home Visitors Program and the Adult Literacy Program (ALP) The HIPPY Home Visitors program uses a culturally adaptive HIPPY curriculum to provide parents with training, educational activity packets,and other resources to help improve theirchild/rens literacy and school readiness. The training and resources are delivered by home visitors employed by WE-CARE.In 2025, FLI celebrated its 10th year of The HIPPY Home Visiting Program,having 218 families complete the program.The program worked with 233 children, and an additional 76 children (siblings and relatives) in families benefited from the HIPPY at-home model. The Adult Literacy Program (ALP), which complements HIPPY complements, provided group-based instruction in English…
$112,900 spent$30,994 earned by the program74% of program spendingIn 2025, the Friends of Liberia Small Grants Committee played a critical role in strengthening Liberias local development ecosystem during a year marked by significant cuts to U.S. foreignassistance. The Committee received 172 applications and funded 15 community-led projects across six counties, awarding over $25,000 in grants and reaching more than 30,000 beneficiaries. Supported initiatives spanned education, health, economic empowerment, sanitation, infrastructure, peacebuilding, and psychosocial support, with measurable outcomes including increased school attendance, improved menstrual health knowledge, reduced waterborne illness, enhanced road safety compliance, strengthened agricultural livelihoods, and improved access to safe learning and healthcare environments. Beyond funding,Small Grantsdeepened its commitment to transparency and capacity building by implementing a structured evaluation rubric, strengthening its three-phase monitoring and evaluation framework, providing tailored applicant feedback and office hours, launching a quarterly newsletter distributed to 190 organizations, and creating a WhatsApp community for peer connection. Together, these efforts reflecta…
$39,833 spent$9,287 earned by the program26% of program spendingSince 2020 the Liberian Health Team has been offering continuing professional development workshops with the financial support of Friends of Liberia.These continuing professional development workshops not only enable both faculty and clinical nurses and midwives around Liberia to continually update and expand their knowledge, skills,attitudes and enhance evidence-based practices throughout Liberia,it also allows them to lead efforts to improve the Liberian healthcare delivery system.Since 2022,it has been determined that a majority of workshop participants have shared workshop resources in their respective institutions either through uploading of workshop resources on to personal or institutional computers or more formally through organized workshops.This facilitates the circulation of evidence-based practices throughout the Liberian health care system. With the support of the US Health Team of the Friends of Liberia and Global Giving,FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025.The 2025 workshops were again held at Phebe Hospital from January 6 through January…
$25,811 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,733.
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 2019 to 2020, from $331k to $477k (+44%).
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.
90% of FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF LIBERIA 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 LIBERIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 LIBERIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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
54% of FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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 LIBERIA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LIBERIA 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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 LIBERIA 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 LIBERIA INC?
- FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,228 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($47,928). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $88,228 in grants to FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC?
- GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,928 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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