The Afriwomen Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311796082
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- West Orange, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 5105437894
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,000
- Expenses
- $136,522
- Assets
- $27,890
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maame Afon Yelbert-Sai (CEO/Board Chair)
People named in this filing
- Obenewa Amponsah (Chief Strategy Officer/Board Member)
- Maame Afon Yelbert-Sai (CEO/Board Chair)
- Frances Nana Ofosu-Amaah (CFO/Board Member)
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 AfriWomen Network Inc., continues to support African women and girls in the diaspora (USA) with bridged to the continent through its programming and support from its affiliate organization in Ghana, the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF). The AfriWomen Network Inc. focused on community building, ensuring women and girls had opportunities for leadership development, career support, and strategies to foster better health and wellness. In parallel, the organization made grants to AWDF with a focus on women's health, economic stability, leadership, and peace-building through sharing and understanding lived experiences. A critical element of this work was bringing a group of young women together to form the volunteer NextGEN Advisory Group to ensure that the voices of the younger generation inform our work going forward.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants to Africa for strategic planning, team retreat and reorgnization in support of a marginalized local and immigrant communities.
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
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: 6.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 20; 20th 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: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.