Tanzania Development Support NFP
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263522673
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- DeKalb, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8155012224
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,149
- Expenses
- $102,492
- Assets
- $49,062
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kurt Thurmaier (President)
- Edith Njuguna (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kurt Thurmaier (President)
- Tricia DeBoo (Treasurer)
- Edith Njuguna (Vice President)
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
Tanzania Development Support NFP invests in projects and programs that improve the learning environments of students, provide educational resources to schools and teachers, and promote the value of education in communities in the Mara region of Tanzania.
What it reported doing in 2025
TDS provides ongoing funding for multiple established education programs, student activities and facility improvements. They include the scholarship program that supports secondary education for 42 girls annually, the computer lab in the library and community resource center in Nyegina which provides internet access and education programs to the students, teachers and community, the preprimary program that serves about 100 young children, the 4H Career Pathways program that serves 8 schools with more than 600 students actively involved, and a new computer lab housing 25 computers at the Etaro Secondary school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.7%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 6%; rating input score 6
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: 5.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th 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: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 5.7% of revenue deployed · 6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.