Florida · Nonprofit
RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC
RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,418,510 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($8,020,404). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Rafiki Foundation Inc does
Mission
To help africans know god and to help them raise their standard of living with excellence and integrity. Rafiki is a christian, interdenominational mission organization incorporated in the united states. The foundation operates one rafiki training village in each of ten african countries. See below for expanded mission statement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Rafiki has been serving in africa over 30 years and is helping africans to know god and raise their standard of living through bible study and education with excellence and integrity. This work is overseen by the staff at the rafiki home office in eustis, florida and the 39 missionaries out in the field in africa. Rafiki operates in ten african countries and has built a rafiki training village in each of the ten countries. Each village consists of anywhere from 20 to 30 buildings. Rafiki has five programs: 1. Education 2. Advanced learning institute 3. Childcare (orphan care) 4. Bible study 5. Widows classical schools-one k-12 school at each of its ten villages. These schools provide a high quality education for both resident children and day students from the community. The rafiki schools currently educate more than 3,525 students which includes the 381 orphans living at the rafiki villages and over 3,144 impoverished day students from the surrounding communities. The children are taught using rafiki's christian classical curriculum which has been developed specifically for africa. This curriculum provides both textbooks and lesson plans and has been written to international…
$10,759,379 spentof which $16,071 as grants$57,987 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,759,379.
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 $22M to $20M (−8%).
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.
98% of RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Karen Elliott
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 34 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.5M.
33 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 61% · 2020 65% · 2021 34% · 2022 51% · 2023 33% — 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
60% of RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
73% of RAFIKI 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 $5.0M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like RAFIKI FOUNDATION 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rafiki Education Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC?
- RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,418,510 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($8,020,404). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $18,418,510 in grants to RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,020,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 81 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing