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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by GLOBAL AFRICAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$553,332
Total expenses
$423,935
Contributions and grants received
$549,899
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,828
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$1,605
Total assets, end of year
$129,870
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$129,870
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$373,623
Management and general expenses
$49,552
Fundraising expenses
$760
Program service expenses (Part III)
$373,623

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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $487,899

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $62,000

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE REVENUE

    total $1,828 · related or exempt $1,828

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $1,605

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $1,605

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,828 · program services $1,828

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $343,201 · program services $334,964 · management and general $7,477 · fundraising $760

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $24,729 · program services $8,994 · management and general $15,735

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $25,452 · program services $22,790 · management and general $2,662

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $15,159 · management and general $15,159

  • 17 · Travel

    total $13,566 · program services $5,047 · management and general $8,519

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $473 · end of year $19,860

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $110,010

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $473 · end of year $79,870

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    end of year $50,000

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE GABA FOUNDATION IS AN AFRICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, PRODUCING THE KNOWLEDGE, POLICY, AND DATA THAT DRIVES ECONOMIC POWER FOR THE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN DIASPORA. THE GABA FOUNDATION IS LAUNCHING THE GABA MARKETPLACE CENTER - A TRADE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT HUB DESIGNED TO HELP INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURS SCALE, DISTRIBUTE, AND SELL THEIR PRODUCTS IN THE US.

  • GABA WORKS EXIST TO DELIVER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, CAPACITY BUILDING AND WORKFORCE READINESS TRAINING TO THE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY. GABA WORKS BUILDS CUSTOMIZED, SELF-PACED LEARNING PATHWAYS ACCESSIBLE FROM ANYWHERE IN MICHIGAN. THIS IS BEING DONE THROUGH THE GABA MARKETPLACE CENTER, THE MARKETPLACE CENTER IS AN AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN TRADE DISTRIBUTION HUB THAT PROVIDES SUPPLY CHAIN ACCESS FOR AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN OWNED BUSINESS TO THE AREA WITHIN A 350-MILE RADIUS OF DETROIT.

    Expenses $373,623

  • GABA ACCESS PROVIDES COMMUNITY RESOURCE NAVIGATION, BENEFITS NAVIGATION AND OTHER SERVICES THROUGH A MOBILE CLINIC OPERATING MODEL ACROSS DETROIT, INKSTER, YPSILANTI, BENTON HARBOR AND GRAND RAPIDS.

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Akindele Akinyemi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Elizabeth Ajayi Bridges

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Gbenga Ogunjimi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • O Rerhi Onomake

    CHAIRWOMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Warren Winston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

  • GABA MARKETPLACE CENTER INC

    DIST. · MI

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
25 June 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202621959349300417

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