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Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie

Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,895 to it, the largest being SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE ($99,107). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$72k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$269k
Net assets
$21k
6/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie does

Mission

Sumbandila supports transformational education in Africa by means of a world-class education and mentorship program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We support Sumbandila Scholarship Trust connecting students to US supporters. During the current year the following number of students were selected: Sumbandila selected 28 new students, Exceptions (Outliers) 16, New grade 9 and 8, New grade 10, Residential: 4 New students.

    $65,000 spentof which $65,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,000.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($11k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 449 ($207k) Expenses 1856 ($201k) Net assets 116 ($41k)2019 Revenue 276 ($127k) Expenses 1294 ($140k) Net assets 79 ($28k)2020 Revenue 163 ($75k) Expenses 278 ($30k) Net assets 207 ($73k)2021 Revenue 59 ($27k) Expenses 31 ($3k) Net assets 275 ($97k)2022 Revenue 125 ($58k) Expenses 1208 ($131k) Net assets 68 ($24k)2023 Revenue 54 ($25k) Expenses 104 ($11k) Net assets 106 ($37k)2024 Revenue 50 ($23k) Expenses 363 ($39k) Net assets 59 ($21k)2025 Revenue 157 ($72k) Expenses 671 ($73k) Net assets 58 ($21k)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (671)Net assets (58)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $97k to $24k (−75%).

$35k
$41k
$28k
$73k
$97k
$24k
$37k
$21k
$21k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,031 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’17
$6k
’18
−$13k
’19
$45k
’20
$24k
’21
−$73k
’22
$14k
’23
−$17k
’24
−$270
’25
29
months of
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

Leigh Bristow

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

201820192020
Listed10104
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·06
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $3k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie’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

Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie.

37%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.

“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

33% of Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

MA
CA
NM
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

NY
MA
CA
NM

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie?
Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,895 to it, the largest being SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE ($99,107). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $268,895 in grants to Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie?
SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE is the largest funder on record, with $99,107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie 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.

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 9 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