Africa Youth Rising
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853082395
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Littleton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7638076466
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,020
- Expenses
- $86,565
- Assets
- $20,102
- Liabilities
- $202
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amanda Case (Executive Director and Chairperson)
People named in this filing
- Amanda Case (Executive Director and Chairperson)
- Jamie Zigterman (Director)
- Daniel Perron (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
Provide free day care for disabled children in Ghana
What it reported doing in 2025
There are a few grants that are given. These were for specialized medical assistance such as hearing aids, medical treatment and specialized educational assistance, money is rarely given directly to an individual, rather the needed item, treatment or schooling was paid directly to the vendor. There are 6 children getting disability scholarship assistance, and 3 additional getting other educational assistance. Almost all of the 12 at Grace house get some medical assistance at one time or another
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
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: -0.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.