California · Nonprofit
MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,765 to it, the largest being Elbaz Family Foundation ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $102k
What Musizi University Foundation does
Mission
Musizi University Foundation's mission is to support the development of higher education in Uganda. We do this through working with a partner university project in Kampala, Uganda, which is called Musizi University project. Musizi University is an upcoming private non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Uganda that will offer a transformative education for students starting with degree programs in entrepreneurship, software engineering, and data science. To accomplish this mission, we focus on raising awareness about higher education in Uganda in the US and raise funds from people who want to support its development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
This grant supported Musizi University to offer its second Africa Family Business Week that convened 100 business leaders from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Morocco. The executive education program equipped participants with foundational frameworks for understanding the nuances of operating and sustaining a family business across 4 full day sessions, and the African Family Business Conclave brought together family business owners, advisers, and academics to engage in discussions about the challenges faced by local family businesses and how to strategize for long-term sustainability. This supports Musizi University Foundation's mission of supporting higher education in Uganda because the family business program under the entrepreneurship degree will be one of the inaugural programs of Musizi University.
$22,729 spentof which $22,729 as grants60% of program spendingThis grant supported Musizi University project in Uganda, which is a project to start the first liberal arts college in Uganda, to complete the renovation and furnishing of its first campus and housing for personnel. This facility is required for the accreditation process in Uganda. At the campus, the grant enabled the following: metal works, kitchen renovation, and furniture. All rooms are now fully furnished and ready for administrators, staff, and students to use along with a kitchen to support cafe services. This program will serve around 144 college students and 30 staff members of Musizi University in its first year of operation, and the university campus is also used to support programming for 40 students participating in the Musizi WINGS college bridge program. The grant also enabled renting housing for personnel to support international volunteers who work on university projects in Uganda. This enabled 6 international volunteers to work in Uganda in summer 2025. This supports Musizi University Foundation's mission of supporting higher education in Uganda by developing the facilities that are required for accreditation and full university operations.
$7,440 spentof which $7,440 as grants20% of program spendingThis grant supported the accreditation fees for Musizi University to apply for a provisional license. A provisional license allows Musizi to operate as a degree-granting higher education institution in Uganda. The National Council for Higher Education requires these fees in order to conduct its due diligence of the applicant institution through inspection visits. This supports the mission of Musizi University Foundation because this process enables Musizi University to begin operations as an accredited institution through obtaining its license.
$6,944 spentof which $6,944 as grants18% of program spendingThis grant supported the Musizi WINGS program for 50 high school students in Uganda. The WINGS (Work and Industry Neutral Growth Skills) program is a two-year leadership program for high school students that prepares students for college and career. Workshops were conducted in January, April, and August; students engaged in debates, design thinking, personal statement-writing, and college applications. 100% of the 19 high school seniors in the program obtained admission to universities, and 7 are serving as mentors to the next generation of WINGS students. This aligns with Musizi University Foundation's mission to support higher education in Uganda because this prepares the high school students to apply and attend universities.
$887 spentof which $887 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $102k (+495%).
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 MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sheila Nabanja
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
“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
MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
44%
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 MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: 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 MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,765 to it, the largest being Elbaz Family Foundation ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $110,765 in grants to MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- Elbaz Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIZI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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