Tanzania Life Project

Analysis

Tanzania Life Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Wayzata, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Tanzania Life Project reported income of $305k and spending of $310k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $225k to $305k (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Tanzania Life Project sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Owyhee ($305k), Cazenovia Preservation Foundation Inc ($305k) and Bedford Audubon Society ($305k).

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 $153k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $153k.