California · Nonprofit
KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO
KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,460 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($582,993). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Karimu International Help Foundatio does
Mission
The organization aims to provide funds for, and help execute, completion of schools and other community projects enhancing the well-being of rural villages in the developing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Karimu International Help Foundation envisions a world without poverty. Our mission is to help rural communities in low-income countries lift themselves out of poverty by tackling the biggest challenges facing the poor: lack of sanitation and clean water, poor health, inadequate education, meager income, and lack of financial services. We engage deeply with communities and their governments to set priorities and devise projects that address these problems. As a result, such communities can not only sustain themselves, but thrive. Karimu believes the communities we serve understand their needs better than outsiders can, so we do not impose solutions. We decide on projects together, including in our discussions the most vulnerable community members: women, young people, and the poorest of the poor. Karimu provides counsel, funding, volunteers, and resources needed to help these communities reach their goals. Karimu recognizes that poverty's challenges are interrelated and that focusing on one area such as education, water, or health can alleviate poverty, but not eliminate it. For example, investing in education can achieve little if children lack access to health care, and a new…
Karimu International Help Foundation envisions a world without poverty. Our mission is to help rural communities in low-income countries lift themselves out of poverty by tackling the biggest challenges facing the poor: lack of sanitation and clean water, poor health, inadequate education, meager income, and lack of financial services. We engage deeply with communities and their governments to set priorities and devise projects that address these problems. As a result, such communities can not only sustain themselves, but thrive. Karimu believes the communities we serve understand their needs better than outsiders can, so we do not impose solutions. We decide on projects together, including in our discussions the most vulnerable community members: women, young people, and the poorest of the poor. Karimu provides counsel, funding, volunteers, and resources needed to help these communities reach their goals. Karimu recognizes that poverty's challenges are interrelated and that focusing on one area such as education, water, or health can alleviate poverty, but not eliminate it. For example, investing in education can achieve little if children lack access to health care, and a new…
$725,294 spentof which $704,550 as grants100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $725,294.
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 2021 to 2022, from $966k to $276k (−71%).
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 KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $12k → $115k.
12 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO’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
KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 84% · 2022 37% · 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
50% of KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
94% of KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO'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 $76k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO: 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 KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO?
- KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,460 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($582,993). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,244,460 in grants to KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $582,993 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KARIMU INTERNATIONAL HELP FOUNDATIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 15 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