Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC
MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,924 to it, the largest being GRAND FOUNDATION ($2,924). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $185k
What Mt Meru Coffee Project Inc does
Mission
Support ministry of the greater milwaukee synod evangelical church in america to meru diocese of tanzania, africa. To do social and economic justic (pay above fair trade prices) empowering the small coffee farmers and the people of the meru region with the ability to improve their standard of living and escape the long standing cycle of poverty
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Improve subsistence farmer income in arumeru district of tanzania through purchasing coffee from the mt. Meru specialty coffee growers association at or above fair-trade prices to sell to consumers in the united states. Provided $8400 in funding to support continuing education for an additional 113 farmers(783 program to-date)at the tanzania cofee research institute (tacri)
$0 spentof which $8,400 as grants
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2018 to 2019, from $233k to $200k (−14%).
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.
66% of MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $424.
From the IRS filings of MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC: 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 MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC?
- MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,924 to it, the largest being GRAND FOUNDATION ($2,924). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,924 in grants to MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC?
- GRAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,924 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MT MERU COFFEE PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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