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← GHANA MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by GHANA MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,009,648
Total expenses
$1,330,754
Contributions and grants received
$1,956,337
Grants paid
$1,062,769
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$53,311
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,343,074
Total liabilities, end of year
$44,624
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,298,450
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,106,763
Management and general expenses
$79,906
Fundraising expenses
$144,085
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,106,763

Program services were 83.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,956,337

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $111,868

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $53,311 · excluded $53,311

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $1,062,769 · program services $1,062,769

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $171,171 · management and general $59,910 · fundraising $111,261

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $3,431 · management and general $3,431

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $13,468 · management and general $2,484 · fundraising $10,984

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $36,804 · program services $22,265 · management and general $4,550 · fundraising $9,989

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $8,494 · program services $1,759 · management and general $6,735

  • 17 · Travel

    total $19,970 · program services $19,970

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,796 · management and general $2,796

  • 24a · Other expenses: Other

    total $11,851 · fundraising $11,851

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $158,167 · end of year $499,088

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $121,608 · end of year $309,897

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $359,797 · end of year $534,089

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $2,848 · end of year $2,824

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $34,570 · end of year $41,800

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $602,154 · end of year $1,298,450

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Ghana Make a Difference (GMAD) protects children and preserves families by providing a path to self-reliance through shelter, vocational training, life skills, education and medical care; provide vulnerable children (those rescued from child trafficking, abandonment or with other special needs) with a place they can call home while working to reintegrate them with their biological family or place them in a new family; provide education by operating a K-8 school and offering scholarships for secondary, post-secondary, and various vocational schools; and provide vision, dental, and surgical care.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To protect children and preserve families by providing a path to self-reliance through shelter, vocational training, life skills, education and medical care.

  • Support an NGO in Ghana (GMAD Ghana): Children's shelter caring for 50 children. Rehabilitation, care and education for children rescued from trafficking and abandonment. Children are placed in the home by the Department of Social Welfare. Employ social workers who work with other agencies and government social workers to place children in families. Reunified 33 children with families. Care for children with special needs via a model of inclusion. A school for elementary and JHS, using technology to teach via a special catch-up curriculum (most children rescued from trafficking have never attended school). Older children attend a UK high school or a vocational school via scholarships. Support deaf children at a deaf boarding school. Grant and oversee 40-50 scholarships for former shelter children who have been reunited with families or who have transitioned into society as adults. 54 full-time employees: social workers, nannies, cooks, facilities, teachers, security, seamstress, bookkeeper, management, nurse, drivers. The staff is a mix of Ghanaians and refugees from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.

    Expenses $630,855 · Grants $605,778

  • Support an NGO in Ghana (GMAD Ghana): Dental Clinic, Vision Clinic, and Surgical Center. 1,492 surgical, dental and eye procedures - helping people back on the path to employment and self-reliance. Organize and coordinate healthcare missions where healthcare professionals and other volunteers travel to Ghana. 2024 = 1 eye mission, 1 dental mission, and 2 surgical missions. International and domestic volunteers provided 62,376 hours of volunteer service. Collaborate with independent Ghanaian physicians, clinics and hospitals to provide care during, after, and in between volunteer missions.

    Expenses $332,029 · Grants $318,831

  • Support an NGO in Ghana (GMAD Ghana): Physical facilities. Construction, maintenance, renovations, repairs, and expansion. Maintain and improve facilities to maximize the productivity of care and education provided to the children. Purchased additional land for additional care and education facilities.

    Expenses $143,879 · Grants $138,160

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Stacey Hofman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Cornelius Hofman

    Chair/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Ari Aki

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Sloyer

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dayne Jensen

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Glen Stephenson

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Aaron Warner

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Reed Hansen

    Asst Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andy Crossman

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Deb Winward

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Austin Johnson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $174,602
    From this org
    $171,171
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,431
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,171
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,431
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $174,602

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
28 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202621629349301407

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