New York · Nonprofit
SELF HELP AFRICA INC
SELF HELP AFRICA INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,590 to it, the largest being RESOURCED INC ($105,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $612k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $664k
- Net assets
- $145k
What Self Help Africa Inc does
Mission
To empower rural africa to achieve economic independence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Self help africa's mission is to empower rural africa to achieve economic independence. On a continent where up to 75% of the people rely on small-scale agriculture for their survival, self help africa , inc. Believes that it is only by tackling the challenges faced by rural farming communities can real and sustained economic progress be made across sub-saharan africa. For over a quarter-century, self help africa, ir has sought to strengthen agricultural systems; improve access to services and inputs; and to provide rural african communities with the opportunities to market and sell their produce. Self help africa works with local staff and partners in nine countries to support communities to grow more food; diversify their farm production; develop new off-farm enterprise; and sell their farm surpluses. It supports rural micro- finance programs; assists producers to organize into farmers' associations and co-operatives; and enables farm families to access markets and add value to their produce. Additionally it promotes low-cost sustainable solutions to the management of natural resources; supports community adaption to a changing climate; and provides resources to communities to…
$373,565 spentof which $257,752 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $373,565.
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 2020 to 2021, from $249k to $464k (+86%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2020 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
137% of SELF HELP AFRICA 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. 4 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
Courtney Rosenbloom
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $61k → $41k.
10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SELF HELP AFRICA 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
SELF HELP AFRICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 SELF HELP AFRICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 60% · 2019 45% · 2020 87% · 2021 44% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — 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
15% of SELF HELP AFRICA 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
SELF HELP AFRICA INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SELF HELP AFRICA INC's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SELF HELP AFRICA INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SELF HELP AFRICA INC?
- SELF HELP AFRICA INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,590 to it, the largest being RESOURCED INC ($105,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SELF HELP AFRICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $663,590 in grants to SELF HELP AFRICA INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SELF HELP AFRICA INC?
- RESOURCED INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SELF HELP AFRICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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