Texas · Nonprofit
GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE
GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,156 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($61,875). 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
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Greater Washington Friends of Sierra Leone does
Mission
Friends of Sierra Leone (FoSL) strives to educate Americans and those in other countries about Sierra Leone's peoples, cultures, and history and advocate for legislation favorable to Sierra Leone's interests. FoSL also supports small-scale development and relief projects in Sierra Leone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Friends of Sierra Leone directed special projects and provided small grants to organizations that are providing direct humanitarian aid or community development in Sierra Leone. (500 people)
$385 spentof which $186,658 as grants19% of program spendingThrough its newsletter and other mailings, Friends of Sierra Leone helped to keep members up to date on events in Sierra Leone and the organization's efforts to provide assistance in the country. (300 members)
$666 spent33% of program spendingThrough its annual meeting and other events, Friends of Sierra Leone helped to educate its members and the general public concerning the history, culture, and current events in Sierra Leone. (100 members)
$950 spent47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,001.
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 $14k to $45k (+223%).
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 GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $70 → $41.
2 of 2 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 GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE’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
GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE
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In Texas
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE?
- GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,156 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($61,875). 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 GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $62,156 in grants to GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $61,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2 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