Friends of Kenyan Orphans

Analysis

Friends of Kenyan Orphans is a registered charity in United States, based in Gross Pointe Park, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of Kenyan Orphans reported income of $427k and spending of $444k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $350k to $427k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Friends of Kenyan Orphans sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ohio County & Independent Agricultrual Societies ($427k), Sharenet Food Bank ($427k) and Fannin County Empty Stocking Program Inc ($427k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $571k against liabilities of $2,287, net assets of $568k.