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FRIENDS OF THE CONGO

EIN 37-1516674 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$1,150,112
Expenses 2024
$1,011,202

Program services were 89.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q70
Classification
1000
Street
1629 K STREET NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Raise consciousness about challenges in Congo and support Congolese institutions as they strive to bring about peace and lasting change.

  • Education of the public about the challenges in the Congo In 2024, Friends of the Congo pursued its three-pronged education program - Congo Week, Braking The Silence Speakers Tour and popular education. FOTC organizes Congo Week, the third week of each October. The 2024 Congo Week was the 17th annual event. FOTC coordinates people throughout the globe to participate in the week of workshops, forums, teach-ins, film screenings, rallies, fundraisers, benefit concerts and a host of other activities organized locally in different parts of the world. The flagship event of Congo Week is Congo in Harlem. It is a film and event series where Congolese filmmakers, musicians, artists, intellectuals and practitioners descend on Harlem each year to promote and highlight Congolese cultures and Congos contribution to world civilization. The second of the three programs is the Breaking the Silence speakers tour. Friends of the Congos speakers conducts teach-ins both in person and irtually throughout the globe. The tour officially kicks off on February first and officially ends on July 2nd. However, in reality it lasts all year long as team members are engaged in teach-ins and speaking engagements year round. In addition to participating in the forums, workshops, and other educational programs throughout the year, FOTC coordinates and facilitates local educational forums by providing films, materials, ideas and recommendations to local groups organizing educational forums on the Congo.

    Expenses $441,225

  • Support to frontline organizations in the Congo In regard to providing support to frontline organizations in the Congo, Friends of the Congo supports the Basandja Coalition and their allies in all four corners of the Congo. They have a reach of an approximately two million Congolese. We provide the Coalition with grants to deliver humanitarian relief in the form of deliver of food, medicine, medical equipment and materials, building wells, expanding farm land, building shelter, and a host of other humanitarian relief efforts that address the material and social well being of Congolese inhabitants in distress.

    Expenses $458,972

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Carrie Crawford

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Paul Pumphrey

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lyndon Wilburg

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Maurice Carney

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $42,000
    From this org
    $42,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Samuel Livingston

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Samuel Yagase

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Patricia Ndombe

    Member

    Total calculated
    $12,000
    From this org
    $12,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,150,112
    Expenses
    $1,011,202
    Contributions
    $1,150,112
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $291,634
    Expenses
    $272,509
    Contributions
    $291,634
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $315,620
    Expenses
    $313,560
    Contributions
    $315,620
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $335,983
    Expenses
    $341,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,412

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $237,478
    Expenses
    $238,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,411

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,018
    Expenses
    $225,587
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,339

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $157,881
    Expenses
    $144,467
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,672

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $78,661
    Expenses
    $85,891
    Assets (EOY)
    $97

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $52,902
    Expenses
    $50,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,773

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,540
    Expenses
    $91,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,171
    Expenses
    $73,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $566

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2016, reinstated 15 May 2016.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.