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WAKULIMA USA

EIN 83-3464668 KENT, WA

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Revenue 2024
$590,721
Expenses 2024
$469,772

Program services were 6.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K99
Classification
2000
Street
23830 PACIFIC HWY S STE 333

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

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from members undertaking manufacturing and delivering product downstream through our marketing channels. We will make value addition one of our core focuses - transformation packaging distribution and marketing of farm products both crop and livestock. Our Farming and Food Business Development Center will provide farming and food business training support and enterprise incubation to aspiring entrepreneurs from the communities we serve. We will provide the farmers and entrepreneurs we serve with mentorship farmland processing and storage facilities and marketing and distribution support. Our Community Kitchen and Cultural Center will provide a welcoming space for diverse communities to come together and share their foods cultures values and s

Activities or mission (Part I)

Wakulima USA is a farming and food business cooperative that advances small business development and food sovereignty for low income immigrants and people of color in the Puget Sound region. Wakulima means Farmers in Kiswahili the most widely spoken language in Africa. Wakulimas founding members are Kiswahili speaking African immigrants who are committed to preserving traditional farming and food ways and creating shared prosperity through cooperative economics. Our organization empowers people to harness their traditional food ways modern farming techniques and food innovation strategies to build successful businesses centered around healthy sustainable local farming and food production.

  • Our Farm Program provides farmers with farm space technical support and markets for produce creating food sovereignty and economic opportunities in low income immigrant communities. We empower people to harness their traditional foodways modern farming techniques and food innovation strategies to build successful businesses centered around healthy sustainable local food production. The cooperative currently includes 26 farmers from various countries in Africa who cultivate in Western Washington. Wakulima hosts an annual Mavuno harvest Festival in the fall where we celebrate our farmers.

    Expenses $11,957

  • One of the challenges facing immigrants and refugees is the issue of Mental Health. One of the main areas of concern is finding supports for our community that enhance culturally relevant ways of doing therapy and offering supports to our community.

    Expenses $1,000

  • Our youth program invites parents and youth to work together through their adjustment challenges and see common solutions that are long-lasting and amicable. Wakulima hosts age appropriate youth forums that give youth the space to express their feelings and receive peer to peer support. We also host an annual Vijana youth Festival where we provide food and entertainment for youth bringing the community together.

    Expenses $17,154

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.

  • David Bulindah

    Operations Manager

    Total calculated
    $92,342
    From this org
    $92,342
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • Dickson Njeri

    Operations Manager

    Total calculated
    $53,700
    From this org
    $53,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • Maura Kizito

    Development Director

    Total calculated
    $103,774
    From this org
    $103,774
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • Vanessa Runo

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $71,700
    From this org
    $71,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • Bernard Nyakiba

    operations

    Total calculated
    $7,830
    From this org
    $7,830
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

  • Ruby Valla

    Communications and Fundraising Strategist

    Total calculated
    $9,672
    From this org
    $9,672
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    52

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
    $590,721
    Expenses
    $469,772
    Contributions
    $568,088
    Grants paid
    $450
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $410,655
    Expenses
    $397,936
    Contributions
    $410,655
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $190,895
    Expenses
    $257,160
    Contributions
    $190,895
    Grants paid
    $31,007

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
    $229,955
    Expenses
    $389,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,466

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $401,930
    Expenses
    $230,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $171,301

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Dickson Njeri
Mailing address
23830 Pacific Hwy SouthKent WA 98032

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.