Malawi Childrens Initiative

Analysis

Malawi Childrens Initiative is a registered charity in United States, based in Chapel Hill, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 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, Malawi Childrens Initiative reported income of $294k and spending of $254k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $207k to $294k (+42%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Malawi Childrens Initiative sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 60th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hogar de LA Promesa ($293k), Center for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria ($294k) and Grow Ahead Foundation ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 102% of the total. It paid $5,152 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $69k against liabilities of $1,999, net assets of $67k.