Massachusetts · Nonprofit
UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,893,411 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,313,260). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $11k
What Ubuntu Global Connections does
Mission
We support (financially) non-profit organizations in south africa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants made to axium education which provides educational programs for children, youth and adults in rural villages in mqaanduli in eastern cape province of south africa. Website www.axiumeducation.org
$545,908 spentof which $545,908 as grants93% of program spendingGrants made to sihamba sonke. Sihamba sonke (meaning "walking together") is a non-profit organization based in rural south africa (near zithulele in the eastern cape) focused on raising value-driven young leaders through mentorship, character development, and skills transfer. They aim to provide opportunities to young men who are often trapped by socio-economic circumstances.
$16,989 spentof which $16,989 as grants3% of program spendingGrants made to jabulani rural health foundation which focuses on health care, education, poverty relief, environmental issues and community development located in zithulele village on the wild coast in the eastern cape province of south africa.grants made to new hope sa which provides temporary housing and comprehensive services for previously homeless men in the cape town area.website: www.jabulanifoundation.org
$7,200 spentof which $7,200 as grants1% of program spendingGrants made to orgnizations providing various program services such as housing and educational services.
$19,697 spentof which $17,273 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $589,794.
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 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $155k (+268%).
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 UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $389k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS’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
UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 54% · 2020 61% · 2021 76% · 2022 59% · 2023 72% — 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 UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
79% of UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS'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 $406k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: 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 UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS?
- UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,893,411 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,313,260). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,893,411 in grants to UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,313,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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