Vanguard Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813446976
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 8607100139
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Human Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,825
- Expenses
- $124,611
- Assets
- $212,247
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE FRYER (PRESIDENT)
- JOE TRIPPI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEFFEREY SMITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BRUCE FRYER (PRESIDENT)
- JOE TRIPPI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTOPHER HARVIN (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vanguard africa advocates for free, fair and transparent election processes in africa and helps to consolidate democratic forces to advance a reform agenda.
What it reported doing in 2024
General Advocacy: Successfully leveraged influential global media and dynamic social media platforms to spotlight the critical importance of pro-democracy advocacy across Africa. By pitching and publishing powerful op-eds and commentary in respected outlets-including The Africa Report, Al Jazeera English, and the Journal of Democracy-as well as through our Africa Watch platform (published by Vanguard Africa), we ignited international conversations around the urgent need to defend democratic values and human rights. Our expert voices-staff, advisory board members, and frontline human rights defenders-used these platforms to galvanize global audiences, challenge authoritarian narratives, and inspire collective action for free and fair elections. Through these strategic media efforts, we amplified the stories of courageous pro-democracy leaders and increased international solidarity to uphold democracy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
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: 11.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.2% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.