Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PEMBA FOUNDATION INC
PEMBA FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($141,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Pemba Foundation Inc does
Mission
Development of lives and livelihoods in Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Continuation of program at Maziwa Ngombe village school, including extensive renovations and construction of kitchen and dining addition, used to provide breakfast for students. All works were completed in 2025 in anticipation of the planned closure of the foundation in 2026. About 400 students attend this school.
$35,967 spentof which $29,800 as grants91% of program spendingContinuation of program to start tilapia aquaculture on Pemba Island. Pemba Island has no tradition of tilapia farming or consumption. There can be multiple benefits from establishing tilapia farming on the island: improved nutrition from a relatively cheap source; reduction in fishing pressures on marine fisheries, especially the extensive coral reefs which are currently overfished. In 2025 we transfered running of this project to the local people who developed it with us. In 2026 we expect to provide the last of our support, in anticipation of the planned closure of the foundation in 2026.
$3,561 spentof which $2,950 as grants9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,528.
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 $55k to $5k (−91%).
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 PEMBA FOUNDATION INC’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. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Nassor Marhun
exec director key employee based in Tanzania
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $96k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 PEMBA FOUNDATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PEMBA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PEMBA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
93% of PEMBA FOUNDATION INC'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PEMBA FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 85% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
53%
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 PEMBA FOUNDATION 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 PEMBA FOUNDATION INC?
- PEMBA FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($141,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEMBA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $151,500 in grants to PEMBA FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEMBA FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $141,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEMBA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2 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