Tias Arms

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide shelter and care for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa2025 was our most successful year of fundraising in Tias Arms history. Thanks to our donors, we were able to distribute approximately $170,000. In 2025, the hard-working board and dedicated volunteers organized two fundraising events: our annual tea party and our third jazz event. These ever-popular fundraising events ensured we could once again distribute funding to our seven sites in South Africa.Never-Never LandNever-Never Land Full-Service School has been a most beloved site supported by Tias Arms since its early days. The school is situated in an impoverished township near the town of Howick and provides not only tutorship, but also provides the only meal of the day for most of the children. The school also facilitates a HIV/AIDS outreach program which helps the children with HIV receive the requisite care and monitoring. The school's library, funded by Tias Arms, continues to grow from strength to strength. Never- Never Land school now has eight grades and Tias Arms continues to fund the teachers' salaries and the balanced, nutritious meals, grown in the school grounds, which the children enjoy every day. Tias Arms has watched the children grow from strength to strength. In 2025, Tias Arms purchased a new vehicle to transport the children. Scholarship ProgramIn 2024, Tias Arms launched its first ever high school scholarship fund to support some of the seventh graders leaving NNL school. These gifted and diligent students have been with Tias Arms since they were toddlers, and with the support of our partners and our funding, they have excelled in learning throughout the years. Deserving of a good high school education, the graduating students have each been sponsored by a generous donor here in the United States for the duration of their high school years.Howick Pre SchoolTias Arms continued to support preschoolers from the surrounding villages near Howick. This early childhood education gives these children the head start they need. They also enjoy a daily cooked meal. At St. Josephs, the children learn English as well as the essential skills and learning that will prepare them for public school. The high number of children infected with HIV are lovingly cared for by the staff of Midlands Hospice. Tias Arms augments this noble work by providing high caloric meals for the children in need. Monthly analysis of their weights and wellbeing is an essential component of ensuring we are succeeding in our mission. Tias Arms also pays for the salary of the hospice social worker and healthcare worker. Both of whom navigate the psychosocial challenges of HIV infection and AIDS. Khazimula is currently home to 23 children and youth between the ages of 2 and 20. These children are all at different stages on their healing journey depending on when they first arrived at Khazimula, with their spirits broken because of the trauma, abuse, and loss they experienced prior to being sent to Khazimula for nuturing care and protection. Tias Arms proudly supports Khazimula, helping them with residential care, education, school uniforms and psychotherapy, including sand play, and Marimba lessons.Homes for Kids in South AfricaFirst opened by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tias Arms continues to support HOKISA in their vast work of caring for children who have been traumatized in unsafe and poverty-stricken environments in the Cape province, South Africa. Based in Masiphumelele, HOKISA uses our funding to assist in the provision of housing, school uniforms, therapy, and education. In the compassionate, stable environment of this children's home, children can heal and thrive. Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA)GAPA was formed in the township of Khayelitsha to address the needs of grandmothers who had lost their sons and daughters to AIDS, many of whom were left to care for their orphaned grandchildren. Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS has recently had more and more grandfa

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
• Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 26.3%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings