Africa Needs U Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383743586
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Hanover, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4107968787
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,918
- Expenses
- $87,549
- Assets
- $59,824
- Liabilities
- $8,762
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OLADELE PAUL TAIWO (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- OLADELE PAUL TAIWO (President & CEO)
- Oluseun Holmes (Director)
- Adesina Adebisi (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advocate for infrastructural development in africa
What it reported doing in 2025
Africa ask- provides a web database where infrastructural development needs in africa can be requested and donors can partner with the organization to fund the development projects
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.