African Library Project

Analysis

African Library Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Royal, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2008, 18 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, African Library Project reported income of $450k and spending of $529k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $539k to $450k (-16%), an average of -4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 127%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, African Library Project sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Medical Missionaries Inc ($450k), Pacific Island Ministries Inc ($450k) and Joseph Assignment Global Initiative ($449k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $435k against liabilities of $34k, net assets of $401k.