California · Nonprofit
MBEYA
MBEYA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,369 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($79,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $232k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $545k
What Mbeya does
Mission
Mbeya is a christian, religious, charitable organization that exists to equip church leaders in the northern region of malawi through theological education and practical outreach
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation and Staffing of Zola Zola Community Center in Malawi: Mbeya continued the operation and staffing of Zola Zola Community Center. We had four full-time Malawian staff living at the center. Mbeya provided school fees, meals and boarding fees for ten youths from the community. Mbeya provided six youth camping/retreats throughout the year, and provided scholarships for students unable to afford the fees. With students from the Bible College, we continued offering classes at the center and evangelism programs in the community. Youth and children's programs, such as drama clubs, choirs, dance clubs and community outreaches reached people in the thousands. Special Christmas, Easter and Mothers Day programs reached community members in the thousands.
$60,820 spent33% of program spendingOperation and Staffing of Bethel Bible College (BBC) in Mzuzu, Malawi. The Bible College offers theological courses for interested indivduals in the northern region of Malawi. The main Mzuzu campus as well as our off-site Msongwe site were staffed and maintained with a year-round presence of students, staff, teachers, outreach programs, and our ongoing partnership with Zola Zola Community Center. The Bible College campus serves as the Malawian office for Mbeya, with two full-time staff in 2024 residing on the premises. Impact from the Bible College includes 16 students, 2 interns, 15 part-time youths, and hundreds of program beneficiaries in the community.
$57,955 spent31% of program spendingTekero Retreat Center. We continued offering retreats at the rural retreat/outreach center in Tekero as well as the undertaking of some major building projects at the center, including new housing dorms, bath/toilet blocks, security perimeters, increased flood controls, solar installation and a short-term, shallow borehole. Local impact is felt in the way of jobs provided. Primary impact is for urban youths from Zola Zola who attend the youth retreats. Secondary impact is for students of the Bible college who run the programs, plan the events, and teach the classes for the retreats
$62,941 spent34% of program spendingMsongwe Annex to the Bible College. No new construction projects or ministry programs were undertaken at the site, but general security, water, electricity and groundskeeping to keep the property secure and maintained for future use.
$4,469 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,185.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $152k to $288k (+90%).
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.
98% of MBEYA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Matthew Herbst
Chief Executive
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $13k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MBEYA’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
MBEYA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MBEYA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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
100% of MBEYA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MBEYA is better cushioned than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MBEYA
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MBEYA: 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 MBEYA?
- MBEYA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,369 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($79,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MBEYA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $86,369 in grants to MBEYA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MBEYA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $79,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MBEYA 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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