Friends of Liberia Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
SUPPORT EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS RELATING TO LIBERIA
- Income
- $137,481
- Spending
- $166,015
- Spent on programs
- 92%
- Reserves
- 29.7 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 90%
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 28
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 85 out of 100. Higher than 71% of charities in its peer group (international, under $250k).
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 29.7 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
0 of 15Spending exceeded income by 21% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 9% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1592% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 5 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 90% of charities in its peer group (international, under $250k).
Independent board
25 of 2515 of 15 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, 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)
- $112,900 spent. The Friends of Liberia (FOL) Education Committee continued its support of WE-CARE International,a Liberian-led nonprofit based in the greater Monrovia area. The Committee provides technical guidance, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation support, and financial assistance for WE-CAREs Family Literacy Initiative (FLI).In 2025, FLI continued to serve 5 communities through its two components: the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Home Visitors Program and the Adult Literacy Program (ALP) The HIPPY Home Visitors program uses a culturally adaptive HIPPY curriculum to provide parents with training, educational activity packets,and other resources to help improve theirchild/rens literacy and school readiness. The training and resources are delivered by home visitors employed by WE-CARE.In 2025, FLI celebrated its 10th year of The HIPPY Home Visiting Program,having 218 families complete the program.The program worked with 233 children, and an additional 76 children (siblings and relatives) in families benefited from the HIPPY at-home model. The Adult Literacy Program (ALP), which complements HIPPY complements, provided group-based instruction in English literacy and numeracy completed its 6th year of services. ALP provides two levels of services.Level one is for parents with very little literacy, and Level two is a continuation designed for parents who already have some basic literacy skills.In 2025, 84 learners successfully completed the program, including 60 in Level 1 and 24 in Level 2. FOLs Education Committee continued to expand its longitudinal tracking of program graduates and supported ongoing curriculum contextualization for Liberian learners. The program conducted graduation exercises for participating families and engaged an external evaluator to carry out endline assessments,including the Bracken School Readiness Assessment for children.These findings were shared in a a one-pager, and a chapter publication by 2025. The FLI program continues to expand access to early childhood education and strengthen family literacy in underserved communities through its partnership between WE-CARE International and Education Committee of Friends of Liberia.
- $39,833 spent. In 2025, the Friends of Liberia Small Grants Committee played a critical role in strengthening Liberias local development ecosystem during a year marked by significant cuts to U.S. foreignassistance. The Committee received 172 applications and funded 15 community-led projects across six counties, awarding over $25,000 in grants and reaching more than 30,000 beneficiaries. Supported initiatives spanned education, health, economic empowerment, sanitation, infrastructure, peacebuilding, and psychosocial support, with measurable outcomes including increased school attendance, improved menstrual health knowledge, reduced waterborne illness, enhanced road safety compliance, strengthened agricultural livelihoods, and improved access to safe learning and healthcare environments. Beyond funding,Small Grantsdeepened its commitment to transparency and capacity building by implementing a structured evaluation rubric, strengthening its three-phase monitoring and evaluation framework, providing tailored applicant feedback and office hours, launching a quarterly newsletter distributed to 190 organizations, and creating a WhatsApp community for peer connection. Together, these efforts reflecta holistic approachthat combines flexible funding, accountability, and network-building to advance resilient, community-driven development in Liberia.
- Since 2020 the Liberian Health Team has been offering continuing professional development workshops with the financial support of Friends of Liberia.These continuing professional development workshops not only enable both faculty and clinical nurses and midwives around Liberia to continually update and expand their knowledge, skills,attitudes and enhance evidence-based practices throughout Liberia,it also allows them to lead efforts to improve the Liberian healthcare delivery system.Since 2022,it has been determined that a majority of workshop participants have shared workshop resources in their respective institutions either through uploading of workshop resources on to personal or institutional computers or more formally through organized workshops.This facilitates the circulation of evidence-based practices throughout the Liberian health care system. With the support of the US Health Team of the Friends of Liberia and Global Giving,FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025.The 2025 workshops were again held at Phebe Hospital from January 6 through January 10, 2025. FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025. In-service training was provided to nursing/midwifery faculty and practicing nurses/midwives to provide evidence-informed and context relevant continuing professional development (CPD) training to support their professional development and improve ongoing practice.In addition,the workshops offered the opportunity for health professionals from across Liberia to share experiences,concerns and successes in their work. Workship objectives included that the nursing/midwifery faculty would be competent in writing well formatted learning objectives and be knowledgeable and competent in evaluating their own institutional programs. Additionally,practicing nurses/midwives would be effective in handling postpartum hemorrhage,eclampsia, and birth aphasias which are among the causes of maternal-infantsmorbidities and mortalities in Liberia.These topics were the focus of the midwifery experts during our 2025 workshop.Through these efforts FOL,through the LHT,is helping the Liberian government in its objectives to reduce maternal-infantsmorbidities and mortalities in Liberia. An additional planned component of the workshop was that the participants would share what they had learned with the staff at the clinics and hospitals where they were based.Consequently,the LHT was able to report several follow-up training events: 1.At Kolahum Hospital in Upper Lofa County, during a day long training, 26 staff were provided refreshing training in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. 2.At F J.Grant Hospital in Sinoe County,20 staff were provided an in-service training that included post-partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth asphyxia. 3.At Government Hospital, Buchanan, Grand Bassa,25 staff were retrained in post-partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth asphyxia. 4. At Rally Time Hospital in Grand Kru County,9 staff were trained in workplace ethics.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, 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 September 7, 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 September 30, 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 September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since July 1988.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 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 October 7, 2026.
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