Utah · Nonprofit
Rafiki Outreach
Rafiki Outreach (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,100 to it, the largest being THE DO GOOD FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $405k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Rafiki Outreach does
Mission
RAFIKI Outreach is a humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities in East Africa become self-reliant through access to clean water education support medical assistance and sustainable community development projects. The organization works alongside local leaders and communities in Kenya and Tanzania to implement long-term solutions that improve health opportunity and quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Rafiki Outreach expanded its assistance to help schools get adequate supplies like desks and furniture. We opened up more humanitarian activity in Kenya and have expanded our water projects and clinic support initiatives there as well. Rafiki volunteers and contract laborers assisted in expanding their education outreach by teaching communities more initiatives to get agriculture and businesses expanding in small communities. RAFIKI Outreach works with contractors project facilitators and volunteers to work with drilling and construction companies.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Volunteer Expeditions & Humanitarian Outreach: RAFIKI Outreach organized and facilitated humanitarian volunteer expeditions to East Africa Malawi Kenya and Tanzania that supported community development clean water initiatives educational support healthcare and humanitarian outreach projects. Volunteer teams participated in service activities project implementation and direct community engagement alongside local leaders and partner organizations.
$191,474 spent$185,928 earned by the program48% of program spendingBorehole Well Drilling & Clean Water Projects: RAFIKI Outreach funded and coordinated water well drilling and clean water infrastructure projects in East Africa to improve access to safe water for rural communities schools churches and medical facilities. Multiple wells were drilled in the Manyara region of Tanzania including some outlying areas. We also expanded our outreach by drilling community wells in the Eldoret Region of Kenya. Each community where a project is initiated contributes to their project by volunteering their time resources or contributing financial or material means thus engaging the community to foster owner ship responsibility and self reliance.
$161,546 spentof which $161,546 as grants41% of program spendingCommunity Development Initiatives: RAFIKI Outreach supported community development initiatives including school improvements orphanage support clinic assistance rainwater collection systems and other humanitarian infrastructure projects designed to promote long-term community self-reliance. About 15 rain collection systems were installed on homes in Oldonyosambu Tanzania. Orphanage and school support ranged from Arusha to Magara Tanzania and health clinic support in Eldoret Kenya. This community development supports broader self-reliance efforts.
$33,952 spentof which $33,952 as grants9% of program spendingAdditional program-related operational expenses including equipment purchases bank fees contract labor and support costs directly associated with humanitarian program implementation.
$8,722 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $395,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $47k to $54k (+16%).
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.
54% of Rafiki Outreach’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Brennen Brown
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Rafiki Outreach’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
Rafiki Outreach leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
“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
Rafiki Outreach draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Outreach has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Rafiki Outreach
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Rafiki Outreach: 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 Rafiki Outreach?
- Rafiki Outreach (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,100 to it, the largest being THE DO GOOD FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rafiki Outreach have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $91,100 in grants to Rafiki Outreach, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rafiki Outreach?
- THE DO GOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rafiki Outreach find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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