Arizona · Nonprofit
ORCHARD AFRICA
ORCHARD AFRICA (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,483 to it, the largest being CANYON INSTITUTE ($384,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $626k
What Orchard Africa does
Mission
Orchard: Africa equips the local church to care for the vulnerable. The organization develops programs that include meeting daily needs of food security, sustainable small scale agriculture, health & hygiene, educational, life skills, entrepreneurial and other sustainable and on-going projects with community involvement. Church leaders and churches in the developing world are empowered to implement these programs in order to respond to poverty and injustice and their outworking in local communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food & Agriculture Program : Orchard: Africa equips & funds local churches to run daily meal programs for vulnerable children. The organization also equips and empowers churches to develop church vegetable gardens and to teach vertical farming methods to congregation members, in order for them to produce food for themselves and thus bring sustainable food security to a community. To date over 14 million meals have been served in vulnerable communities. During 2025 71,541 pounds of food were distributed. Training in small scale agriculture was provided for 5,369 individuals and 535 new community gardens were started.
$411,809 spentof which $170,769 as grants32% of program spendingMINISTRY PROGRAM: Orchard: Africa believes that the Church is the primary channel through which to respond to poverty and injustice in Africa. Through the Ministry Program, Orchard: Africa empowers African church leaders with skills that enable them to provide emotional, physical, social and spiritual care to he vulnerable in a community. The Ministry Program provides church leaders with tools (programs) to actively lead and care for their community and to restore hope through their churches. In conjunction with this, Western church leaders are empowered to respond in sustainable ways to the needs of the church in Africa. During 2024, Orchard: Africa provided 43,241 training hours and equipped 432 Pastors and Ministry leaders who serve in vulnerable communities.
$284,006 spentof which $182,943 as grants22% of program spendingEDUCATION PROGRAM : Orchard Africa assists churches to start pre-schools so that children are encouraged to love learning at a young age. Churches are also empowered to start after-school learning programs whiich include educational assistance, sport and recreational activities. Orchard:Africa also assists churches to run entrepreneurial & life skills programs which provide school leavers to develop vocational and income generating skills. Orchard: Africa sponsored pre-schools have provided education for 12,749 children to date, and over 1.1 million visits have been made to after school learning centers.
$269,806 spentof which $120,524 as grants21% of program spendingOrchard: Africa empowers local churches and church leaders to be the response to poverty & injustice, by equipping the church to implement Care programs which include orphan intervention, homed based care and development programs for young mothers. Orchard: Africa also equips the the local church to implement administrative, development and fundraising activities.
$340,807 spentof which $84,314 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,306,428.
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.
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 $153k to $639k (+317%).
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.
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
Michelle Tessendorf
CEO & Co-Founder Orchard: Africa
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $118k → $171k.
9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 ORCHARD 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
ORCHARD AFRICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 ORCHARD AFRICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 89% · 2019 53% · 2020 66% · 2021 71% · 2022 51% · 2023 45% — 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
38% of ORCHARD AFRICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
61% of ORCHARD 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 $398k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $631k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like ORCHARD 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 ORCHARD 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 ORCHARD AFRICA?
- ORCHARD AFRICA (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,483 to it, the largest being CANYON INSTITUTE ($384,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORCHARD AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,029,483 in grants to ORCHARD AFRICA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCHARD AFRICA?
- CANYON INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $384,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCHARD AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 15 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