Thrive Kenya
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873387392
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Minnetonka, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122982069
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,707
- Expenses
- $133,556
- Assets
- $60,895
- Liabilities
- $154
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Harmon (Founder, Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- John Harmon (Founder, Executive Director)
- Warren Harmon (Chairman of the Board)
- Charlie Coggin (Treasurer)
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
Thrive Kenya supports over 400 orphaned, abandoned, abused, neglected, and vulnerable impoverished children living in the rural area of Homa Bay County, Kenya and in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Our vision for every child is that they grow up in a loving family based environment, building a foundation to thrive in an independent and self sustaining life. The problem is that across Kenya, countless children are orphaned, abandoned, or separated from family because of poverty or crisis. Without safe loving care and education, they face risks that can shape the rest of their lives. Our belief is that every child deserves a safe family, quality education, and the chance to become a thriving, self reliant adult. Our approach is to provide child centered, family-focused care that nurtures emotional security and belonging within a supportive family environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Thrive Kenya's 4th full year of operations, we clarified and renewed our overall vision and mission to position ourselves with the future of vulnerable children care in Kenya. Our accomplishments include a partnership with the Kenyan government who approved Thrive Kenya's plan in that we are embracing many elements of the Kenya Care Reform Strategy. We also continue to acquire land in Homa Bay for future vision planning. We began the planning of building a Junior Secondary School on our campus that will result in bringing all our 30 Juniors back to campus. We supported over 80 children from the community who live with their families by providing them with free education. We drafted our reintegration plan that involves family tracing and assessments as we begin to reintegrate children back into their families when we deem it safe to do so. We began our plans to build a foster care village on our Homa Bay campus for those children who are not able to reintegrate back to their families, can come to our campus and live in family modular housing, where all siblings live together, with no more than 8 children per home, and under the care of a well-trained matron or foster care worker who will oversee the complete care of those children living together as a family. We developed new partnerships in the community to assist us in supporting our mission to properly care for the children. We began our Life Transitions program in which all older children, following their graduation from high school, are mentored and counseled and helped along their path to higher education, learning new skills, learn soft skills, and receive career coaching all to lead them successfully to live independent and self-sustaining lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
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: 18.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $132K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.