Equipping Africa
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Provide healthcare services and education in Africa
- Income
- $92,418
- Spending
- $111,521
- Reserves
- 3.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $1,716 spent. Equipping Africa Maternal Newborn Community Health - Missionary trainings for embedded missionaries in high need areas. Multiple new community health units supported Disaster Response with the Flooding in Maai Mahu. MNCH team members continue to teach qualitative research methods as a short course being offered 2-3 times a year to build up Kijabe Hospitals Research Capacity. MNCH team members teach a quality improvement component of the healthcare worker week-long training on non-communicable diseases that is offered multiple times a year.
- $59,891 spent. Infectious Diseases: Funded through Equipping Africa - Development of a web-based platform for teaching infectious diseases from actual cases (https://infectiousdiseasesafrica.com/login/index.php). Sign in as student.one with password; Student@123. Antibiotic resistance for a bacteria (Mycoplasma genitalium) that is a common cause of sexually transmitted infection throughout the world. This will be the first analysis of resistance levels in sub-Saharan Africa and will help guide treatment of patients with this infection. A graduate student is doing this as her research project and will submit a dissertation and also submit for publication. Other research and teaching accomplishments - Analysis of the impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) training for medical officers at the AKU outreach clinics: This project includes the rollout and evaluation of an online AMS course designed especially for medical officers and also offered to pharmacists at the clinics. In addition, quantitative surveys of patients and qualitative assessment of knowledge and attitudes regarding AMS and AMR are being done; as of the end of 2024, the latter was submitted for publication by a pediatric resident and provided the material for her dissertation. Presentation and range of CNS infections in patients admitted to AKUHN from 2013 onward. This includes identifying all patients who had LPs done and analyzing those with possible infection. Those with infection were categorized as bacterial, viral and aseptic, cryptococcal and tuberculous meningitis. Expected publications will include the overall analysis and specific studies of viral, cryptococcal and tuberculous meningitis and is being done by a multidisciplinary team. Presentation and outcome of Klebsiella bacteremia among patients admitted to AKU. This is the second-most common Gram negative pathogen identified and the most common Gram negative hospital-acquired infection. It is also the most problematic in terms of antimicrobial resistance, including resistance to carbapenems and even polymyxins. Correlation of PCP PCR with clinical presentation PCR is highly sensitive for PCP, but there is a colonization state that makes it nonspecific. We are analyzing whether the quantitative value will distinguish infection from colonization. This is being done as a research project by a clinical pathology resident for her dissertation and for publication.
- $42,274 spent. African Consortium for Quality Improvement Research (ACQUIRE) in Front line Health - The Africa Consortium for Quality Improvement Research in Frontline Health Care (ACQUIRE) is a not-for-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. ACQUIRE is working towards empowering frontline healthcare workers and their institutions to apply continuous evidence-based quality improvement The ACQUIRE consortium is jointly led by Kijabe Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital and takes a team-based, learning-by-research approach to Quality Improvement. Still in its nascent phase, ACQUIREs fiduciary operations are supported by the Africa Mission Healthcare (AMH) along with a Board of Directors that includes representatives from the co-founding health care institutions. Equipping Africa 501c3 has given startup funding to help this initiative grow. In 2024 the fourth year of operations ACQUIRE continued work on several significant engagements and continued work on a QI curriculum. ACQUIREs donor base has substantially expanded leveraging the investments made in early years. 1. ACQUIRE Theory Leadership course, in 2024 had excellent results in building capacity in healthcare workers in multiple countries, with an 81% completion rate. In 2024, 106 healthcare institutions from 10 SSA countries participated in the Theory course. 2. ACQUIRE held its first Quality Improvement Forum, Building Quality Improvement into Africas Health System Agenda. This conference with 60 in person and over 600 online attendees delivered 2 days of content to build capacity. The ability of Equipping Africa to nurture start-up endeavors like ACQUIRE demonstrates how well targeted funding can leverage impact, mobilizing other donors, and reach multiple countries on the continent.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since October 2011.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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