Utah · Nonprofit
ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC
ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,083,272 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($615,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $455k
What Royal African Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to create and nurture projects which benefit communities, wilderness and wildlife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education sponsorships: the royal african foundation believes in the power of education and sponsors students to achieve their dreams of finishing their schooling. Over the lifetime of this project, many of our previous students have become forces for positive change for their rural communities and the wilderness areas they come from. In 2025, 54 students were sponsored at varying levels of education across kenya, tanzania and uganda through this program. We look forward to continuing to sponsor these and more students who come to us for help to stay in school when they would not otherwise be able to.
$46,403 spent12% of program spendingThe sand river region: the royal african foundation funds strategic programs to protect the sand river's migration routes that link the mara, serengetti, and rift valley ecosystems. Among the most biodiverse areas on earth, it faces growing threats from land subdivision and unplanned development, which disrupt wildlife movement and increase human-wildlife conflcit. To address this, we support community education, enterprise, health, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation projects. We also support biodiversity research and monitoring, and advocacy efforts to preserve this essential landscape for people and wildlife alike.
$117,110 spent29% of program spendingIn 2025, the royal african foundation completed the construction of a new kitchen and dining hall at lpus leluai school in westgate, samburu, the latest milestone in a partnership stretching back to 2008. The school, which serves 330 students right on the western edge of samburu national park, has been transformed by sustained investment over the years, and is now the best-performing school in its sub-county and among the top ten in all of samburu county. These newest facilities join a growing list of completed infrastructure, including lights, fencing, toliets, and boarding house improvements, all of which continue to improve daily life and safety for the school's students, staff, and the wildlife they live alongside.
$18,610 spent5% of program spendingRoyal african foundation provided various grants to foreign partner ngos that aligned with royal african's mission of supporting communities and conservation. Further detail can be seen on schedule f. Royal african foundation provided various grants to domestic partner charities that aligned with royal african's mission of supporting communities and conservation. Further detail can be seen on schedule I.
$221,127 spentof which $171,749 as grants55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $403,250.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $106k to $201k (+89%).
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 ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $274k.
10 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 ROYAL AFRICAN 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
ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 54% · 2022 78% · 2023 46% — 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
63% of ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 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
96% of ROYAL AFRICAN 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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROYAL AFRICAN 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROYAL AFRICAN 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 ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC?
- ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,083,272 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($615,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,083,272 in grants to ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $615,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC 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.
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 16 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