Michigan · Nonprofit
KIDS FIRST UGANDA
KIDS FIRST UGANDA (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,330 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($214,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Kids First Uganda does
Mission
We are a christian organization that aims to empower and benefit women and children to build a strong community. We encourage, uplift, and create an environment where women, children, and youth can, through education, skills development, employment opportunities, and development of talents and freedom of expression, reach their individual potential. We stand by god's promise that he has "plans to give hope and a future" jeremiah 19:11 our non-profit work extends to all people, regardless of their religious beliefs, gender, age, race, or ethnic background.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kids First Uganda property renovation- in 2020, kfu purchased property for our programs and office. In 2021, monies were allocated for the renovation of the property and on-site buildings. Included in the main building is now an office, media center, and library. An outbuilding was renovated for a safe house. In addition, rest rooms were built as well as a green house. Renovation cost also included installation of electricity and water, a water tank, landscaping, fencing, and a gate.
$35,515 spent43% of program spendingChildren's sponsorship program- we work closely with local private primary and secondary schools, as well as support students following a different career path to pursue vocational training options. Approximatly 80 children are being supported by sponsors who are paying school fees, tuition, and in some cases boarding school. Vacational training programs have expanded from 5 to 220 graduates.
$33,879 spent41% of program spendingTalent development program - the kfu soccer program consists of approimatly 500 kids, ages 7 though 18. In 2023, 71 players were recruited to play with educational scholarships. The music and dance program includes dancing, singing, praying, counseling, and guidance, and approximatly 60 students are enrolled.
$13,975 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,369.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $136k to $63k (−54%).
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.
52% of KIDS FIRST UGANDA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $20k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 KIDS FIRST UGANDA’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
KIDS FIRST UGANDA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 KIDS FIRST UGANDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 67% · 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
88% of KIDS FIRST UGANDA'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KIDS FIRST UGANDA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,386 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like KIDS FIRST UGANDA
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 Michigan
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS FIRST UGANDA: 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 KIDS FIRST UGANDA?
- KIDS FIRST UGANDA (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,330 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($214,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KIDS FIRST UGANDA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $271,330 in grants to KIDS FIRST UGANDA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS FIRST UGANDA?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $214,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS FIRST UGANDA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 6 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