Tanzania Houston Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275389272
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3462282976
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,639
- Expenses
- $943
- Assets
- $61,177
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEYLA KIKUZI (PRESIDENT)
- ERASTO MVUNGI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LEYLA KIKUZI (PRESIDENT)
- ERASTO MVUNGI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NOVATUS SIMBA (BOARD OF TRUSTEES)
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 organization tanzania houston community's primary exempt purpose is to support and empower tanzanian-american families and the broader community in the houston area through cultural education, youth development programs, and charitable activities that promote unity, education, and social well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
Thc hosted its annual back-to-school event serving over 200 students by distributing school supplies and essential items to support academic success. The program was supported by $5000 in contributions with total expenditures of approximately $6000.this initiative supports educational readiness and relieves financial burden for families in underserved communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.1%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 95.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 64.87; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings 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 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.