Ghana Friendship Project

Analysis

Ghana Friendship Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Johns Creek, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Ghana Friendship Project reported income of $177k and spending of $177k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $119k to $177k (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 158%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Ghana Friendship Project sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 54th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Latino Youth Collective of Indiana ($177k), Networkpeninsula ($177k) and Foundation of the Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey ($177k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $82k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $82k.