- Revenue 2024
- $1,454,342
- Expenses 2024
- $1,079,565
Program services were 56.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- Q33
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 3853
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
Action In Africa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the United States, and community based organization that operates a thriving community center in Nakuwadde, Uganda. Our mission is to advance the social, personal, and economic development of children, youth, and adults in Uganda through greater access to education and other life-changing resources.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Our mission is to advance the social, personal, and economic development of children, youth, and adults in Uganda through greater access to education and other life-changing resources.
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Secondary, University and Special needs scholarships granted by Action in Africa. These scholarships pay the schooling costs for 18 university students, 116 secondary students, and three special needs students.
Expenses $162,764 · Grants $162,764
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The Center. A public community facility serving individuals, families, and schools with free programs and services - 1885 students enrolled in after school programs, 1015 community members received free medical services, teacher training for 73 educators across 19 different schools, and 197 women enrolled in a weekly support and empowerment program.
Expenses $444,898
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.
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Sarah Nininger
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $111,948
- From this org
- $108,348
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $3,600
- Hours/week
- 50
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Deb Gordon
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Derek Young
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ify Afe
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Johnny DeBrito
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nav Gupta
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Will Myer
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sam Eberts
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Linda Horner
Board Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Martial Combari
Board Finance Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Pamela Rice
Board Member thru Aug 2024
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- $1,454,342
- Expenses
- $1,079,565
- Contributions
- $1,534,903
- Grants paid
- $162,764
-
2023
- Revenue
- $745,464
- Expenses
- $759,808
- Contributions
- $649,911
- Grants paid
- $83,155
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2022
- Revenue
- $614,816
- Expenses
- $475,381
- Contributions
- $578,344
- Grants paid
- $73,830
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $470,337
- Expenses
- $438,670
- Assets (EOY)
- $309,543
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $407,662
- Expenses
- $296,622
- Assets (EOY)
- $254,513
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $280,299
- Expenses
- $353,298
- Assets (EOY)
- $140,286
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $336,693
- Expenses
- $287,530
- Assets (EOY)
- $214,079
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $288,315
- Expenses
- $156,308
- Assets (EOY)
- $160,057
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2016 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $78,856
- Expenses
- $90,702
- Assets (EOY)
- $27,795
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 2014
- Tax period
- 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
- Principal officer
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Lance Finkbeiner
- Mailing address
- 63 Logan A-5Denver CO 80203
- Website
- www.actioninafrica.com
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$175,000
2024 TO ADVANCE THE SOCIAL, PERSONAL, AND ECONOMIC, DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND ADULTS IN UGANDA THROUGH GREATER ACCESS TO EDUCATION
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$20,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$17,000
2022 THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS GENERAL SUPPORT.
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$15,000
2023 General Support
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$10,000
2023 THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS GENERAL SUPPORT.
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$10,000
2024 General Support
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$10,000
2022 General Support
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.