Amani for Africa USA Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203277651
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Billings, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4063251500
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,042
- Expenses
- $96,970
- Assets
- $109,414
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shelly Nauman (President/Director)
- Jim Shaffer (Vice President/Secretary/D)
People named in this filing
- Shelly Nauman (President/Director)
- Jim Shaffer (Vice President/Secretary/D)
- Abram Mac Stevens (Treasurer/ 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
The purpose of Amani for Africa USA Foundation ("Amani") is to fund charitable, educational, religious and developmental activities in Africa. During 2025, Amani pursued this purpose by obtaining donations from individuals and churches and distributing funds to relieve poverty and promote education in central Tanzania.
What it reported doing in 2025
990-EZ, Part III, lines 28 - 31: 2025 program expenditures consisted of grants to Amani Development Organization ("ADO"), a "community related and Christ centered" Non-Governmental Organization registered with the government of Tanzania and operated from the Amani Center located on 530 acres of land donated by the village of Makang'wa. ADO's aim is facilitating improved quality of life that can be maintained by local communities.ADO's programs provide care for families and orphans, water resources, agricultural and horticultural development, education and vocational training, health and nutritional assistance, relief work in time of famine, and social and spiritual development. Activities are jointly planned with communities where local people work for ADO's programs. The Tanzanian government has recognized ADO as a role model for other NGO's. The Rev. John F. Naumann, a director of Amani for Africa USA Foundation (the grantor), resides at the Amani Center in Makang'wa, TZ and serves as Managing Director of ADO (the grantee) on a volunteer basis. ADO has independent Tanzania resident directors, in addition to Rev. Naumann. None of the other ADO directors serve Amani for Africa USA Foundation in any capacity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
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: -49.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $88K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.