Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$10,685,925

Total expenses

$10,333,478

Contributions and grants received

$10,362,266

Grants paid

$7,864,666

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$322,094

Other revenue

$1,565

Total assets, end of year

$9,453,099

Total liabilities, end of year

$82,345

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$9,370,754

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$9,107,997

Management and general expenses

$587,071

Fundraising expenses

$638,410

Program service expenses (Part III)

$9,107,997

Program services were 88.1% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE RURAL ENTREPRENEUR ACCESS PROJECT ("REAP") IS AN INNOVATIVE, DATA DRIVEN, HIGH-IMPACT, GENDER FOCUSED POVERTY GRADUATION PROGRAM THAT TARGETS ULTRA-POOR WOMEN AT THE EPICENTER OF EXTREME POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE TRUE "LAST MILE" OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL-ISOLATION. THROUGH A TWO-YEAR PROCESS OF SEQUENCED INTERVENTIONS - INCLUDING A CASH TRANSFER TO START A SMALL BUSINESS, FINANCIAL AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING, MENTORING, AND A SAVINGS PROGRAM - REAP HELPS THE POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE WOMEN ESTABLISH SAVINGS TO BUILD THEIR RESILIENCE TO SHOCKS AND LIFT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES OUT OF EXTREME POVERTY. ON AVERAGE, 96% OF WOMEN "GRADUATE" FROM EXTREME POVERTY BASED ON BOMA'S STRICT CRITERIA, MEANING THEY HAVE FOOD FOR THEIR CHILDREN, DIVERSIFIED INCOME AND SAVINGS, AND THE ABILITY TO PAY FOR LIFE-CHANGING RESOURCES LIKE EDUCATION AND MEDICAL CARE.

  Expenses $6,443,268 · Grants $6,011,351

• TECHNICAL ADVISORY - AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER AND TECHNICAL ADVISOR TO NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, BOMA LEVERAGES ITS EXPERTISE AND CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF IMPACT TO EMBED THE GRADUATION APPROACH INTO HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SYSTEMS IN FRAGILE STATES AND REGIONS. AS A TECHNICAL ADVISOR TO GOVERNMENTS, BOMA SUPPORTS THE ACTIVITIES AND PROCESSES THAT WILL LEAD TO THE ADOPTION OF THE GRADUATION APPROACH INTO SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS, BEGINNING WITH KENYA.

  Expenses $2,244,225 · Grants $1,850,333

• EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY - BOMA HAS A STRONG COMMITMENT TO EXPAND THE KNOWLEDGE OF POVERTY GRADUATION, LIVELIHOODS, GENDER PROGRAMMING, FINANCIAL INCLUSION, AND SAVINGS MODELS BY COLLABORATING WITH RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND PARTNERS THAT CAN HELP US ADVANCE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES IN THE ARID LANDS OF AFRICA. BOMA CONTINUES TO BRING THE ISSUES OF THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN FORGOTTEN AREAS INTO GLOBAL DEBATE THROUGH PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. IN ADDITION, BOMA CONDUCTS OUTREACH WITH GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN THE POVERTY GRADUATION FIELD BY HOSTING POVERTY GRADUATION LEARNING EVENTS, FIELD VISITS, AND BRIEFINGS FOR GOVERNMENT DELEGATIONS, SUCH AS FOR KENYA, ETHIOPIA AND SUDAN, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN TESTING BOMA'S MODEL IN THEIR COUNTRIES.

  Expenses $420,504 · Grants $2,982

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

2024

Filed

13 May 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.0

Source object

202511339349302436

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