Virginia · Nonprofit
NETWORK FOR AFRICA
NETWORK FOR AFRICA (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,620 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($65,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Network for Africa does
Mission
To promote the relief of poverty for individuals in need in africa; the advancement of education in africa; and the prevention of ill health in africa.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Network for Africa uk (n4a uk): n4a uk administers several projects in africa, all with the goal of rebuilding communities, in partnership with local leaders, after war and genocide, with a special focus on women and children. These projects include the following:rwanda: n4a works with survivors fund (surf) to provide counseling for survivors of violence, in particular the 1994 genocide in rwanda. After the genocide in 1994, thousands of orphans missed school, often living on the street, caring for groups of younger orphans (child-headed households). Addressing trauma, anxiety and depression is crucial if a community is to rebuild. Although the genocide was 25 years ago, the rwandan ministry of health estimates 35% of survivors have mental health issues. Surf beneficiaries include unemployed school dropouts; young women with unplanned babies - a particularly lonely, isolated and vulnerable group who despair of life; rape survivors; some with crippling social anxiety; and some with hiv. The surf project includes a holistic package of entrepreneurship training to help survivors achieve sustainable livelihood.uganda and sierra leone: n4a works with community leaders, including the…
$0 spentof which $32,000 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 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 2023 to 2024, from $28k to $50k (+83%).
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 NETWORK FOR AFRICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Rosie Cowell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $4k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 NETWORK FOR AFRICA’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
NETWORK FOR AFRICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 NETWORK FOR AFRICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 67% · 2020 83% · 2021 67% · 2022 41% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of NETWORK FOR AFRICA'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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
NETWORK FOR AFRICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like NETWORK FOR 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 NETWORK FOR 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 NETWORK FOR AFRICA?
- NETWORK FOR AFRICA (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,620 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($65,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NETWORK FOR AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $109,620 in grants to NETWORK FOR AFRICA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NETWORK FOR AFRICA?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NETWORK FOR AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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