Virginia · Nonprofit
KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE
KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE (Virginia) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,610,409 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,831,085). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Kakenya Center for Excellence does
Mission
Invest in girls and young women from rural communities in kenya as agents of change through education, health, and skills development. We dream of a world where every girl and young woman is educated, valued, respected, and realizes her full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: kakenya's dream advances educational access and quality for marginalized girls in rural southwestern kenya through a multi-pronged approach with its local partner. In 2025, the organization supported 440 girls enrolled in the kakenya centers for excellence, two full-support schools providing high-quality instruction, life-skills training, and extracurriculars while protecting girls from fgm and child marriage. Through the education access program, 224 additional girls received scholarships to local schools, enabling their transition to high school. Additionally, we assessed 20 local schools for targeted interventions to enhance learning quality across the region. We are committed to ensuring every girl has access to a safe, quality education.
$949,520 spentof which $789,808 as grants48% of program spendingHealth: with extremely limited healthcare in the region, most people know very little about their bodies or sexual and reproductive health. In collaboration with our kenyan partner, kakenya's dream funds jijue ("know yourself"), a structured adolescent sexual and reproductive health and leadership training program. These sessions educate both boys and girls on critical topics including bodily autonomy, fgm, and child marriage. In 2025 alone, the jijue program reached over 11,000 students across 57 schools. To further meet the region's dire healthcare needs, we fund the community's first and only youth-friendly health clinic, which provides primary care, mental health support, and stigma-free sexual and reproductive care. The clinic had over 12,000 visits in 2025.
$684,324 spentof which $567,867 as grants35% of program spendingEconomic empowerment: recognizing that pervasive poverty and unemployment create significant barriers to securing jobs, kakenya's dream focuses on empowering young women for economic independence. We support access to tertiary education and provide comprehensive programs to facilitate a successful transition into meaningful employment. In 2025, we provided 284 higher education scholarships and offered supplementary training in job readiness, career guidance, financial literacy, and opportunities for practical experience. Through these initiatives, we equip young women with the essential skills, necessary networks, and critical support required to thrive in a competitive job market, ultimately fostering independence and breaking cycles of poverty.
$339,575 spentof which $283,011 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,973,419.
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 $3.7M to $9.6M (+156%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kakenya Ntayia
CEO and president
Board chair
Kathy Hall
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $126k → $1.1M.
15 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 71% · 2019 25% · 2020 64% · 2021 17% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% — 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
33% of KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: 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 KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE?
- KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE (Virginia) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,610,409 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,831,085). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $8,610,409 in grants to KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,831,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 66 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