Minnesota · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD
FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,459,062 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,024,450). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Friends of Ngong Road does
Mission
We empower nairobi children living in poverty to transform their lives through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We empower nairobi children living in poverty to transform their lives through education and support, leading to employment. We have implemented a thorough review process to select students with a high probability of success. The program offers children support in three key areas: education (school fees, uniforms, books and supplies), safety and well-being (breakfast and lunch each weekday, home environment safety checks by our caseworkers plus basic medical care), supportive community (caseworker support, saturday child development program, lending library, computer lab and annual camp experience for every child). From inception through 2025, the program has served approximately 700 children.
$632,967 spentof which $598,648 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $632,967.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $2.6M (+86%).
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.
95% of FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Carole Patrikakos
Executive director (thru 07/25)
Board chair
Kris Petersen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $82k → $388k.
16 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 NGONG ROAD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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 NGONG ROAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 NGONG ROAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 67% · 2020 48% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 32% — 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
45% of FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
67% of FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD'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 $814k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 NGONG ROAD receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Karibu Childrens Fund LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD?
- FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,459,062 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,024,450). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,459,062 in grants to FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,024,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD 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.
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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 30 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