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FAR AWAY FRIENDS INC

EIN 46-4917506 LAKEWOOD, CO

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Revenue 2025
$164,760
Expenses 2025
$164,355

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S99
Classification
1000
Street
1968 S VAN GORDON ST

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 · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

Far Away Friends exists to transform access to quality education in rural Uganda alongside local leaders.

  • Far Away Friends supports access to education and basic needs for children in rural Uganda through its partnership with Global Leaders Primary School. In 2025 the organization provided daily meals educational resources and operational support to approximately 450500 students including both boarding and day scholars.The program helps reduce barriers to school attendance by ensuring students receive consistent nutrition access to trained teachers and a safe learning environment. Support also includes teacher salaries school supplies and ongoing improvements to facilities and learning conditions.Through these efforts the organization works to improve educational outcomes and long-term opportunities for children in the Amolatar District.

    Expenses $164,335

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jayme Ward

    Co-Founder & Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dennis OConnor

    Board Chair Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jen Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Camela Giraud

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carl Spetzler

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ritah Omia

    Board Member

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $164,760
    Expenses
    $164,355
    Contributions
    $164,139
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $326,470
    Expenses
    $339,343
    Contributions
    $326,470
    Grants paid
    $243,285
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $378,157
    Expenses
    $369,407
    Contributions
    $378,157
    Grants paid
    $263,290

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
    $329,843
    Expenses
    $334,908
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,932

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $155,833
    Expenses
    $175,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,997

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $168,508
    Expenses
    $110,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,357

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $106,669
    Expenses
    $111,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,800

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Jayme Ward
Mailing address
1968 South Van Gordon StreetLakewood CO 80228
Website
www.farawayfriendsglobal.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.