North Carolina · Nonprofit
GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA
GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,661 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($134,977). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Godparents for Tanzania does
Mission
Godparents for Tanzania (G4TZ) offers hope to young Tanzania by sending them to primary and secondary school, vocational training, and college. In 2025, G4TZ provided scholarships to 48 primary, secondary, vocational, and college students in Tanzania. G4TZ also provided grants to five education projects in 2025.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2025, Godparents for Tanzania provided partial and full scholarships totaling $48,935 to 49 Tanzanian students who would not otherwise be able to continue their education. These students come from the Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions of northern Tanzania and study at schools in Tanzania. Scholarship funds are administered by Tanzanian volunteers, who also monitor students' progress. American staff and volunteers also visit Tanzania annually to interview each student.
$8,742 spentof which $48,935 as grants42% of program spendingIn 2025, Godparents for Tanzania provided grants totaling $66,813 to 5 education projects in Tanzania. The grants were awarded to 1) Hai Institute of Technology, a vocational training center; 2) Door of Hope Maasai Ministry, a residential home for Maasai girls from rural villages who attend primary school in an urban setting; 3) a preschool owned and operated by Kisereny Lutheran Parish; 4) Trinity Academy, an English medium secondary school; and 5) Tanzania Women Research Foundation, a Moshi-based NGO that provides school fees for orphans and vulnerable children. Project funds are administered by Tanzanian volunteers, who also monitor project progress. American staff and volunteers travel to Tanzania annually to visit project sites and meet with local project coordinators.
$12,073 spentof which $66,813 as grants58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,815.
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 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $22k (−47%).
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.
100% of GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kristin Westermann
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $42k → $16k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA’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
GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
100% 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 GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 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
100% of GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA'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 $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k 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.
Against its field
GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA?
- GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,661 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($134,977). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $140,661 in grants to GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $134,977 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GODPARENTS FOR TANZANIA 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.
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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 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