New York · Nonprofit
INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT
INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,238,334 to it, the largest being SOHUM FOUNDATION ($275,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $779k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $202k
What Indego Africa Project does
Mission
Indego Africa Project, a nonprofit organization, has been propelling the creation, growth, and sustainability of women owned businesses in rwanda since 2007 and in ghana since 2016, providing employment through access to a global market for their hand made products, investing in their education, and providing funding resources to help them build their businesses. Over 2,500 artisans have partnered with indego africa since its inception. What began as a model to empower and educate women in post-genocide rwanda has grown into a commitment to help women, youth, and refugees in rwanda and ghana become successful entrepreneurs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Vocational & business training:our programs help women in vulnerable communities, unemployed youth, and refugees build the skills to integrate and succeed in the global artisan economy with the following outcomes:-master multiple handicraft techniques through retraining. We provide opportunities for our artisan partners to continuously refresh, refine and expand their skills through retraining workshops and gain exposure to a variety of techniques and fibers.-form, register and run an independent woman-owned cooperative business with bank account set up.-become indego africa suppliers and produce handmade goods for the export market.-improve livelihoods for themselves and financial ability to support their families.-provide access to capital through the igiceri credit union in rwanda, founded by graduates of indego's leadership academy.
$219,843 spent37% of program spendingMarket access:providing our artisan partners with opportunities to earn steady, sustainable income is a key element of indego's market-based impact model and international supply chain. To further increase the work available for the artisans beyond our existing wholesale and retail distribution channels, in 2021 we added a third distribution channel for high volume custom orders for major brands. Our production teams in africa travel to and work directly with our artisan partners to explain product specifications and conduct quality control reviews, and prepare for monthly air cargo shipments to the u.s. This helps reinforce our partners' practical skills with the onsite guidance they need to create high quality products for the international export market.
$362,658 spent61% of program spendingBusiness and community leadership:indego africa believes that educating women is the key to long-term empowerment and social change. Through customized education programs, indego's partners develop the knowledge and skills they need to run and scale their own businesses, become empowered entrepreneurs, and drive economic growth in their communities.
$15,571 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $598,072.
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 2023 to 2024, from $233k to $388k (+67%).
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.
88% of INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT’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. 5 of the last 8 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
Suwha Hong
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Matthew Mitro
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $27k → $187k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT’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
INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 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
50% of INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $295k 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.
Against its field
INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: 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 INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT?
- INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,238,334 to it, the largest being SOHUM FOUNDATION ($275,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,238,334 in grants to INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT?
- SOHUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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