The Fund for African Relief and Education

Analysis

The Fund for African Relief and Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, The Fund for African Relief and Education reported income of $61k and spending of $68k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $96k to $61k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Fund for African Relief and Education sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 12th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include God of Second Chances Missions ($61k), Crayons Matter ($61k) and Kanpe Haiti ($61k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.