Washington · Nonprofit
MOTHER AFRICA
MOTHER AFRICA (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,532,219 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($624,073). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Mother Africa does
Mission
Mother Africa supports African immigrant and refugee women and their families to reach their highest potential. Committed to building leadership, advocacy and community action capacity to reduce barriers to health, education.....
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
King County Best Starts for Kids Flourishing & Resilient Children: Providing ASQ-3 developmental milestones screening for children ages 2 months to 5 years, in the languages that our community members speak (Arabic, French, Dari/Farsi, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, English, Amahric, Tigrinya and Somali Mai Mai)provided by screeners who are from the same cultures as these families. Breaking down barriers to families accessing developmental screening for heir children. Providing referrals for services as needed. 5th year of this program. Continued to provide developmental screening and referrals fo children ages 2 months to 5 years and provide support for their parents, for six different langauge groups. 144 screenings completed, plus twice per year family convening for over 200 attendees.
$215,851 spentof which $207,850 as grants44% of program spendingCity of Seattle, Department of Education and Early Learning (DEEL): New program for 2023. Year long program supporting caregivers and families with children ages Birth - three. We successfully expanded our network of of families receiving support to the City of Seattle and served 22 new moms and 20 dads. Twice per month 1:1 check ins for moms, and monthly group meetings. Quarterly group meetings for the Dads.
$150,000 spentof which $150,000 as grants31% of program spendingKing County Best Starts for Kids Best4Babies, Parent Caregiver Information Supports (PCIS): Providing support to parents who are raising children in the US for the first time, who have children between the ages of 0-5 years. Services include monthly moms groups, quarterly dads groups, mobile advocacy, and home visits conducted by Support Sisters who come from the same communities and provide services in their languages. 5th year of this program. Successfully supported our 4th cohort of 50 moms from six language communities with monthly supports. 9 group sessions per each language group for a total of 54 groups in the year. 1:1 supports for all 50 moms each week of the program.
$125,719 spentof which $125,706 as grants26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $491,570.
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 2019 to 2020, from $402k to $809k (+101%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 75% · 2019 61% · 2020 63% · 2021 74% · 2022 56% · 2023 69% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MOTHER AFRICA’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Risho Sapano
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $6k → $437k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MOTHER AFRICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
MOTHER AFRICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% 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 MOTHER AFRICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 76% · 2019 52% · 2020 34% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 51% — 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
33% of MOTHER AFRICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
70% of MOTHER AFRICA's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $959k 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
MOTHER AFRICA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MOTHER AFRICA
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 Washington
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
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 MOTHER AFRICA: 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 MOTHER AFRICA?
- MOTHER AFRICA (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,532,219 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($624,073). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOTHER AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,532,219 in grants to MOTHER AFRICA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTHER AFRICA?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $624,073 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTHER AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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