Every dollar
91 cents goes to food and program.
The other nine pay for the audit, the wire fees, the safeguarding officer and the person who answers your email. Those are worth paying for, so we don't bury them in a program line.
Categories use standard functional expense definitions — program, fundraising, management — so they are directly comparable with any other nonprofit you're weighing us against.
Revenue
| Source | FY2026 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Individual gifts, one-time | $587,200 | $401,600 |
| Individual gifts, monthly | $602,400 | $478,300 |
| Foundations and community funds | $454,000 | $388,500 |
| Corporate gifts and matching | $196,800 | $158,900 |
| Community fundraisers | $68,300 | $51,200 |
| Total | $1,908,700 | $1,478,500 |
Expenses
| Area | FY2026 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daily school meals | $1,225,000 | 66% |
| Take-home rations | $235,000 | 13% |
| Malnutrition treatment | $156,000 | 9% |
| School gardens and local sourcing | $62,000 | 3% |
| Fundraising | $110,600 | 6% |
| Management and general | $55,300 | 3% |
| Total | $1,843,900 | 100% |
A note on the 25-cent figure. The daily meals line above, $1,225,000, divided by 4.9 million plates, is exactly 25 cents — and that already includes cooks' wages, cooking fuel and kitchen upkeep, not just the food. If instead you divide our entire budget by meals served you get 38 cents, because that budget also pays for rations, malnutrition treatment, gardens, the audit and the person who answers your email. We publish both, because quoting only the flattering one is how this gets dishonest. The $64,800 surplus went into the food reserve described below.
The uncomfortable part
What went wrong this year
A nonprofit that only reports wins isn't reporting.
Meals stopped for six weeks
A maize price spike in Malawi outran the grant. Nineteen schools went without hot lunches until we released contingency funds. We now hold three months of food costs in reserve and buy grain at harvest.
We overpaid for grain
A supplier in Sengerema billed roughly 14% above the district market rate for two quarters before our audit caught it — about $11,200. We recovered $6,800 and now require three quotes on any order over $2,000.
A partner was suspended
Kitchen logs from one Ugandan partner didn't reconcile with grain receipts in the Q2 review. Grants were paused, an independent audit was commissioned, $8,400 was recovered, and the relationship ended.
Independently audited. Financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2026 were audited by Hartwell & Osei LLP under U.S. GAAP. They are on the financials page in full, alongside every prior year.
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