Washington · Nonprofit
WAKULIMA USA
WAKULIMA USA (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,354 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($186,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $591k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $603k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Wakulima USA does
Mission
Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from members undertaking manufacturing and delivering product downstream through our marketing channels. We will make value addition one of our core focuses - transformation packaging distribution and marketing of farm products both crop and livestock. Our Farming and Food Business Development Center will provide farming and food business training support and enterprise incubation to aspiring entrepreneurs from the communities we serve. We will provide the farmers and entrepreneurs we serve with mentorship farmland processing and storage facilities and marketing and distribution support. Our Community Kitchen and Cultural Center will provide a welcoming space for diverse communities to come together and share their foods cultures values and s
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our Farm Program provides farmers with farm space technical support and markets for produce creating food sovereignty and economic opportunities in low income immigrant communities. We empower people to harness their traditional foodways modern farming techniques and food innovation strategies to build successful businesses centered around healthy sustainable local food production. The cooperative currently includes 26 farmers from various countries in Africa who cultivate in Western Washington. Wakulima hosts an annual Mavuno harvest Festival in the fall where we celebrate our farmers.
$11,957 spent40% of program spendingOne of the challenges facing immigrants and refugees is the issue of Mental Health. One of the main areas of concern is finding supports for our community that enhance culturally relevant ways of doing therapy and offering supports to our community.
$1,000 spent3% of program spendingOur youth program invites parents and youth to work together through their adjustment challenges and see common solutions that are long-lasting and amicable. Wakulima hosts age appropriate youth forums that give youth the space to express their feelings and receive peer to peer support. We also host an annual Vijana youth Festival where we provide food and entertainment for youth bringing the community together.
$17,154 spent57% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,111.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7k to $107k (+1520%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 39% · 2023 41% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WAKULIMA USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Vanessa Runo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $323k → $132k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 WAKULIMA USA’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
WAKULIMA USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
92% 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 WAKULIMA USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 41% · 2021 42% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of WAKULIMA USA's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WAKULIMA USA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding WAKULIMA USA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $762k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$762k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WAKULIMA USA
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
6% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAKULIMA USA: 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 WAKULIMA USA?
- WAKULIMA USA (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,354 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($186,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAKULIMA USA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $603,354 in grants to WAKULIMA USA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAKULIMA USA?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $186,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAKULIMA USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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