Musizi University Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871853975
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
6512064151
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,128
Expenses
$47,085
Assets
$102,232
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Takako Mino (President)
  • Sheila Nabanja (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Takako Mino (President)
  • Sheila Nabanja (Executive Director)
  • Elaine Alowo Matovu (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

Musizi University Foundation's mission is to support the development of higher education in Uganda. We do this through working with a partner university project in Kampala, Uganda, which is called Musizi University project. Musizi University is an upcoming private non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Uganda that will offer a transformative education for students starting with degree programs in entrepreneurship, software engineering, and data science. To accomplish this mission, we focus on raising awareness about higher education in Uganda in the US and raise funds from people who want to support its development.

What it reported doing in 2025

This grant supported Musizi University project in Uganda, which is a project to start the first liberal arts college in Uganda, to complete the renovation and furnishing of its first campus and housing for personnel. This facility is required for the accreditation process in Uganda. At the campus, the grant enabled the following: metal works, kitchen renovation, and furniture. All rooms are now fully furnished and ready for administrators, staff, and students to use along with a kitchen to support cafe services. This program will serve around 144 college students and 30 staff members of Musizi University in its first year of operation, and the university campus is also used to support programming for 40 students participating in the Musizi WINGS college bridge program. The grant also enabled renting housing for personnel to support international volunteers who work on university projects in Uganda. This enabled 6 international volunteers to work in Uganda in summer 2025. This supports Musizi University Foundation's mission of supporting higher education in Uganda by developing the facilities that are required for accreditation and full university operations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81

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: 64.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.17; rating input score 81; 81st 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: -22.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 104.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.