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UGANDA RURAL FUND USA INC

EIN 20-4118165 TEWKSBURY, MA

Revenue 2024
$489,929
Expenses 2024
$444,188

Program services were 98.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
1200
Street
61 YOUNG 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 · 2024

Mission

Uganda Rural Fund supports education, healthcare, and sustainable community development for orphan children, vulnerable youth, and impoverished families within Ugandan rural communities. We collaborate with local communities to provide opportunities and resources to improve the quality of life through early childhood to secondary education program, healthcare and medical intervention, housing for families, as well as renewable energy and clean water.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Uganda Rural Fund supports education, healthcare, and sustainable community development for orphan children, vulnerable youth, and families in rural Uganda.

  • Education programs: Supporting the Hope Academy, Hope Junior School, and St. Michael Junior Schools, providing early childhood, elementary, secondary as well as vocational education to orphans and other vulnerable children, as well as youth from rural communities in south western Uganda. This year, the program made quality education accessible to over a 1,300 children and youth who would otherwise not be in school without our assistance. We ensure that the children have the education resources such as classroom facilities, textbooks, technology, science laboratories, trained teachers, nutritional meals, sports facilities, and all other school supplies they need to excel in school.

    Expenses $148,304 · Grants $148,304 · Revenue $67,299

  • Community Outreach program: Supporting social and economic sustainable development opportunities for families in rural Uganda to uplift them out of poverty. We provide resources for water and sanitation, build new homes for families facing homelessness, setting up small income generating ventures for widows and single mother so they can support their children, organizing community workshops on parenting, hygiene, life skills, etc; farming and animal husbandry, and community leadership engagement. During this fiscal year we built homes for seven families; grannies, widows and single mothers caring for orphan children they now have a place to call a permanent home. The homes are fully furnished with a kitchen, latrine, bathroom, rainwater catchment system, and solar for lights.

    Expenses $174,992 · Grants $174,992 · Revenue $165,937

  • Health Care Outreach program: Supporting basic health screening, treatment and ongoing medical care for vulnerable children and adults within Uganda. We assist with paying medical bills and related expenses for children undergoing treatment and surgeries for various ailments such as cancer, malaria, severe malnutrition, hydrocephalus, spina bifida, burn wounds, HIV/AIDS, etc. Through the medical program, forty five children and adults have received life-saving medical interventions this year and some cases are under on-going management and support. We support children needing prosthetic limbs and on-going physiotherapy. During medical camps we provide basic health screening, treatment, as well as health and wellness seminars in rural communities.

    Expenses $20,037 · Grants $20,037 · Revenue $4,692

  • Other programs include: care for orphans involving paying tuition, scholastic materials, providing food, shelter, and basic supplies to orphans and child-headed family children. URF also implements runs a renewable energy program, installing solar systems for schools, eldercare centers, orphanages, and solar water pumping systems for communities. In addition, URF supports the implementing partner, the Uganda Rural Fund, a community based organization which houses volunteer, overseas all the programs in the country, assess needs of families and communities, and ensures program grants are implemented according to acceptable standards and set objectives.

    Expenses $95,836 · Grants $95,836 · Revenue $251,995

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.

  • John Mary Lugemwa

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Benjamin Kaster MD

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Mabel Byakika

    Clerk

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Sarah DiCerbo

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Philip Powell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jeff Eiffler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Elizabeth Schneider

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $489,929
    Expenses
    $444,188
    Contributions
    $489,923
    Grants paid
    $439,169
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $408,287
    Expenses
    $441,814
    Contributions
    $408,280
    Grants paid
    $438,587

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.

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2022, reinstated 15 November 2022.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.