Massachusetts · Nonprofit
KISOBOKA UGANDA
KISOBOKA UGANDA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,873 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($410,580). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $397k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Kisoboka Uganda does
Mission
For the people of Uganda: assistance for education, training, & small business initiatives; meals & healthcare; potable water. In cooperation with Kisoboka Initiative for Progress Ltd. in Uganda.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The entirety of the organization's program service accomplishment is achieved in Uganda. Grants to Kisoboka Initiative for Progress, Ltd. (KIP) are made monthly, twelve times per year. KIP is a charitable entity limited by guarantee, based in Uganda. Kisoboka means "it is possible" in Lugandan. Monthly allocations to KIP provide for tuition, meals, and medical care. In addition, select monthly allocations include special items: school supplies and uniforms, school facilities, medical facilities, clean water facilities, hens and goats, and small business grants. The organization is KIP's primary source of funding. KIP provides regular reports to the organization on the status of initiatives. KIP operates the Kisoboka Junior Primary School, Kisoboka High School, and the Kisoboka Medical Center (located in the Wakiso district west of Kampala, Uganda). KIP also provides support for Christ the King High School and Shalom Restoration Academy in greater Kampala. By the numbers, KIP provides over 500 meals per school day, enrolls over 600 primary school students, over 200 high school students, and provides tuition assistance for 13 post-secondary students.
$320,099 spent$397,024 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,099.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $102k to $55k (−46%).
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 KISOBOKA UGANDA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Sandra W Ruggiero
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $27k → $61k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 KISOBOKA 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
KISOBOKA UGANDA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 KISOBOKA UGANDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
92% of KISOBOKA 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
KISOBOKA UGANDA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KISOBOKA 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 KISOBOKA 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 KISOBOKA UGANDA?
- KISOBOKA UGANDA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,873 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($410,580). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KISOBOKA UGANDA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $473,873 in grants to KISOBOKA UGANDA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KISOBOKA UGANDA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $410,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KISOBOKA UGANDA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2025), 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