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KENYA KEYS

KENYA KEYS (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,331,650 to it, the largest being MDEKFSE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($249,625). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$820k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$645k
22/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Kenya Keys does

Mission

Kenya Keys provides educational sponsorship, support & resources to empower disadvantaged students in rural Kenya to improve their lives & communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Program Operations: Grants to our Kenyan NGO affiliate include: Hope Springs - 4 mentors who offer after school mentor ship to at-risk middle schoolers; Library support of books & funds to 10 primary & 4 secondary school libraries & a community library staffed & stocked with books; GED classes for adults inc. teachers, study materials, lunch & test fees covered; Special Needs school financial support & annual Special Olympics; & funds raised to build classrooms, desks & latrines.

    $286,533 spentof which $97,632 as grants$152,532 earned by the program
    35% of program spending
  2. Sponsorship and Education Supports: More than 435 students from rural Kenya are sponsored to go to high school & post secondary school programs.As well as tuition & fees, we cover basic necessities: clothing, food, toiletries, female sanitary kits, transportation etc & support in terms of mentor ship, conferences & access to libraries with books & laptops.

    $236,197 spentof which $233,378 as grants$278,751 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. Infrastructure Program: We are in the process of building a Community Education Center next to the headquarters which will include a library, computer lab, conference space, football pitch etc that will be open to the community as a free resource for all.

    $224,147 spentof which $223,307 as grants$34,208 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  4. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: The KK NGO Operation Program: Included in grants to our Kenyan NGO affiliate are expenses for 13 program staff salaries, capacity-building, rent, utilities, transportation, office equipment, phones & building maintenance etc.Volunteers - Kenya Keys had 58 volunteers in 2023 contributing 5001 hours of service. Thirty-six staff and students from Weber State University donated 3240 hours of service toward the design and building of the Community Education Center (CEC). A volunteer provided hours of consultation on the construction of the CEC. Two board members provided in-kind legal services, while other members managed a book drive for the library, made feminine hygiene kits for students, managed sponsor renewals, and shopped for and prepared student laptops for dissemination. Other volunteers traveled to Kenya to support staff efforts, evaluate programs, and help with student interviews. Additional hours were donated to write student bios, take and edit student photos/videos, process student letters to their sponsors, and recruit new sponsors.

    $76,223 spentof which $75,086 as grants$87,115 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $823,100.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($310k) Expenses 100 ($262k) Net assets 100 ($268k)2018 Revenue 199 ($617k) Expenses 182 ($477k) Net assets 152 ($408k)2019 Revenue 123 ($381k) Expenses 154 ($403k) Net assets 144 ($386k)2020 Revenue 219 ($680k) Expenses 165 ($431k) Net assets 236 ($634k)2021 Revenue 225 ($700k) Expenses 228 ($597k) Net assets 275 ($736k)2022 Revenue 272 ($845k) Expenses 269 ($704k) Net assets 327 ($878k)2023 Revenue 261 ($810k) Expenses 350 ($917k) Net assets 287 ($771k)2024 Revenue 264 ($820k) Expenses 355 ($931k) Net assets 241 ($645k)
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Revenue (264)Expenses (355)Net assets (241)Peer revenue range

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 $396k to $650k (+64%).

$269k
$410k
$396k
$650k
$740k
$881k
$780k
$649k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of KENYA KEYS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
$140k
’18
−$22k
’19
$248k
’20
$102k
’21
$141k
’22
−$107k
’23
−$111k
’24
8.3
months of
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.

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Listed89101010121111
Joined·+1+1+2+1+2+2+1
No longer listed·0021031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $41k → $183k.

9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 KENYA KEYS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

KENYA KEYS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

41% 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 KENYA KEYS.

19%
largest funder
39%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 51% · 2019 57% · 2020 46% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 33% — 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 KENYA KEYS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

KENYA KEYS draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states in all.

WA
ID
OR
UT
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $385k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KENYA KEYS is better cushioned than half of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENYA KEYS?
KENYA KEYS (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,331,650 to it, the largest being MDEKFSE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($249,625). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENYA KEYS have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,331,650 in grants to KENYA KEYS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENYA KEYS?
MDEKFSE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $249,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENYA KEYS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing