Kilimanjaro Childrens Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271426013
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Haines, AK, USA
- Phone
- 5419415104
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,376
- Expenses
- $128,985
- Assets
- $40,247
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gregory Higgins (President)
People named in this filing
- Laurie Dadourian (Treasurer)
- Gregory Higgins (President)
- Mary Hull (Secretary)
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 primary purpose of the Kilimanjaro Children's Fund is to provide financial support and assistance to the children and young adults in the Kilimanjaro region who are at risk because they are orphans, homeless, sick or living in extreme poverty. This activity involves grant assistance for projects designed to deal with specific issues and sites to include orphanages, homeless aid agencies, school placement and assistance work, aide to needy schools and preschools, feeding projects, medical care needs, and other worthy areas dealing with children. Grants will be awarded on an individual basis after ensuring that financial accountability and oversight are in place. Our secondary goal is to educate the international community to the cultural, medical and economic needs of the children of the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2024 we continued the support of 53 children and young adults in their schooling in grade schools, high schools and colleges in Tanzania and Kenya. Most of these children were prior members of the Kilimanjaro Orphanage Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. We also assisted a primary clinic that serves Masai children in the Loitokitok area of Kenya. Many of our older children have qualified for colleges in both Tanzania and Kenya and our organization supports them through the date when they graduate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 17%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.