Health Tanzania Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455468614
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,223
- Expenses
- $144,832
- Assets
- $1,002
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Henry Ziegler (President&ChBoa)
People named in this filing
- Henry Ziegler (President&ChBoa)
- Priscilla Ziegler (VP & Treasurer)
- Dr Deo Mtasiwa (Trustee)
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
1.To obtain grants and other funds to assist Tanzanian individuals and organizations for the improvement of their health, education, and economic well-being.2.To partner with Tanzanian individuals and organizations in implementing and evaluating programs that will improve their health, education and economic well-being.3.To focus on funding and developing programs that specifically help the poor and needy in Tanzania.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community support for the poor and needy SEET is the Tanzanian non-profit that Health Tanzania Foundation (HTF) helped establish in 2016 and helps fund. SEET unites religious and local government leaders to equip, empower, and mobilize community members in self-reliant efforts to realize more equitable health, education, and local development outcomes. SEET focuses on everyone in the entire community, but especially the marginalized. In 2025, SEET continued its important work emphasizing 1. Widows orphans, and teen mothers; 2.Violence against women and children and related alcohol, drugs and AIDS; 3. Emotional self-care and wellness; and home-based care among other initiatives. SEET continued to monitor and support widows self-help groups and one unmarried teen mothers group to help them establish their health, childrens education and sustainable incomes; continued to give school supplies, school uniforms and shoes to the orphans; Visited and monitored the orphans at school supporting their teachers and caregivers.SEET cared for 22 home-based care patients assisting them with medical care, medicines and food.SEETs continued to address violence against women and children, alcohol and other addiction and AIDS. More community residents participated in a three-hour mobilization course to discuss the issues, what they could do and to agree on what they will do. Those identifying as survivors of violence, drugs, and AIDS were encouraged to participate in Emotions Anonymous 12-step self-help programs.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.