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Friends of Tenwek Inc

Friends of Tenwek Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,894,332 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($945,975). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$1.7M
10/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Friends of Tenwek Inc does

Mission

Friends of Tenwek, Inc. was incorporated as a public charity to provide funds to help support the ministries of Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya. These ministries include the Tenwek Hospital, Tenwek Nursing School, Tenwek Chaplaincy School, Tenwek Community Health & Development, and specific missionary ministries.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tenwek hospital is a mission hospital serving southwest Kenya. Located in Bomet County, Kenya, Tenwek is a teaching hospital for residents and has both in-patient and out-patient as well as community development services. Friends of Tenwek supports the hospital through capacity building, financial resources and spiritual support.

    $1,058,363 spent$1,454,975 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,058,363.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($307k) Expenses 100 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($289k)2018 Revenue 263 ($806k) Expenses 236 ($520k) Net assets 199 ($576k)2019 Revenue 212 ($649k) Expenses 231 ($510k) Net assets 247 ($715k)2020 Revenue 252 ($771k) Expenses 256 ($565k) Net assets 318 ($921k)2021 Revenue 386 ($1.2M) Expenses 396 ($874k) Net assets 426 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 408 ($1.3M) Expenses 466 ($1.0M) Net assets 504 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 401 ($1.2M) Expenses 448 ($987k) Net assets 588 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 388 ($1.2M) Expenses 661 ($1.5M) Net assets 495 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 491 ($1.5M) Expenses 566 ($1.2M) Net assets 585 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (491)Expenses (566)Net assets (585)Peer revenue range

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 $921k to $1.2M (+34%).

$289k
$576k
$715k
$921k
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.4M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of Friends of Tenwek Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’17
$286k
’18
$139k
’19
$207k
’20
$310k
’21
$225k
’22
$244k
’23
−$268k
’24
$259k
’25
14
months of
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.

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Listed9888999912
Joined·+0+1+0+3+0+1+0+6
No longer listed·11020103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $15k → $436k.

11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 Tenwek 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 Tenwek Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

84% 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 Tenwek Inc.

50%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 54% · 2019 31% · 2020 49% · 2021 43% · 2022 71% · 2023 55% — 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

44% of Friends of Tenwek Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of Friends of Tenwek 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 $371k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states.

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IL
IN
CA
KY
TN
NC
OK
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of Tenwek Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Friends of Tenwek 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 13 states

NH
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WI
OR
WY
OH
PA
RI
VA
TN
NC
SC
MS

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of Tenwek Inc?
Friends of Tenwek Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,894,332 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($945,975). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of Tenwek Inc have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,894,332 in grants to Friends of Tenwek Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Tenwek Inc?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $945,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Tenwek Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 22 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