Africompassion

Name

Africompassion

Legal name

Africompassion USA

Website

https://africompassion.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Nonprofit Services

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111), Community Food Services (624210), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

NGO/Nonprofit Education Programs & Service Delivery (EDADALAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

School Feeding & Child Nutrition Programs (BPADAJAD), Health, Population & WASH Aid Programs (BPADABAC)

Keywords

• Humanitarian nonprofit services
• Child education programs
• Clean water initiatives
• Child sponsorship programs
• Rural community development

Headquarters

HQ city

Pleasant Grove

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Tax-deductible donations from individual donors supporting education, clean water, and child sponsorship programs. Donations go directly to operate and develop the Africompassion School for Hope. Stock donations accepted with full market value as tax deduction.
2. Corporate Matching Donations: Corporate employee donation matching through Benevity platform. Major corporations including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Adobe, Intermountain HealthCare, and Charles Schwab match employee donations.
3. DAF (Donor Advised Fund): Donations through DAF Direct portal or direct contact with DAF organizations. Africompassion USA is registered 501(c)3 non-profit with EIN 82-1071715.
4. Child Sponsorship: $30 per month sponsors a child's education including materials, teacher, school uniform and meals for one month. Monthly donations provide two meals per day as well as education.
5. Corporate Grants: dōTERRA Healing Hands Grant program providing matching donations for fundraisers supporting the School for Hope school library and computer science labs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Africompassion operates the School for Hope in Kogaja, Tanzania, delivering preschool through 4th-grade education, two daily meals, uniforms, and supplies to approximately 130 orphaned and impoverished children. The organization also drills borehole wells and installs water storage and distribution systems to provide clean drinking water to villagers, runs a $30/month child sponsorship program, offers volunteer humanitarian service expeditions, and provides basic medical care to students.

Product overview

Africompassion is a non-profit organization operating as a single, unified humanitarian mission rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offerings consist of the School for Hope (providing education from preschool through primary grades with plans to expand to secondary), the Clean Water Project (drilling wells and installing water systems), and the Child Sponsorship Program (providing educational materials, meals, and school supplies to individual children). Additional services include Humanitarian Service Expeditions (volunteer trips), Medical Care Services (student health support), and the ICEB Design Project (cost-reduction construction innovation). All programs work together toward the organization's mission of lifting children out of poverty through clean water, education, and medical care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Africompassion School for Hope A pre-primary and primary school in Kogaja village, Tanzania, providing education to orphaned and impoverished children from preschool through 4th grade with two daily meals, school uniforms, and supplies, with planned expansion to 7th grade.
• Clean Water Project Program to drill borehole wells and install water storage and distribution systems providing clean drinking water to Tanzanian villages, including a completed well at Kogaja serving 1,000+ villagers and a planned Nyamasanda well to serve 600 secondary students, 500 primary students, and 2,500+ villagers.
• Child Sponsorship Program Monthly sponsorship program at $30 per month providing individual impoverished children with educational materials, school uniforms, two meals per day, and teacher support; sponsors are paired with a specific child they can track and support.
• Humanitarian Service Expeditions Volunteer expeditions where supporters travel from Salt Lake City to Kogaja, Tanzania to participate in school improvements, building homes for widows, clean water installation, and community development activities; groups of 8+ travelers with CEO Steve Whitehouse coordinating logistics on the ground.
• Medical Care Services Medical support services for students at the School for Hope, including basic first aid, dental supplies, health examinations by local doctors, and coverage of specific medical treatments such as corrective surgery for conditions like club-foot.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1,000 villagers now have access to clean water through the borehole project
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• April Van TassellminorOthers · 1 January 2017Mutual friend who introduced Steve Whitehouse to Jerald Malamba in October 2021, enabling the partnership that led to founding Africompassion USA.
• BenevitycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCauses platform administrator for corporate matching donations. Enables employees of major corporations to match their donations to Africompassion through employer HR portals.
• DAF DirectminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDonor Advised Fund platform allowing donors to direct charitable allocations from their DAF accounts to Africompassion using EIN 82-1071715.
• Edward (Contractor)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLocal contractor who built the school building and toilet facilities. Volunteered labor and time to build a house for a widow, donating approximately 16 days of work for six workers.
• HeartservingcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerEvent host organizing annual fundraising event for Africompassion School for Hope. 100% of ticket sales go directly to school operations. Event held in Layton, UT.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation: Corporate nonprofit partner that provides matching grants to Africompassion for school library and computer science labs; relevant as a comparable funder/distributor relationship.

Direct peers

• Pencils of Promise: Nonprofit building schools and training teachers in developing countries, primarily Ghana, Guatemala, Laos, and Nicaragua — closely comparable mission, donor model, and school-construction-plus-education focus.
• Room to Read: Global nonprofit focused on literacy and girls' education in low-income countries, with comparable donor-sponsorship mechanics and primary-school program design.
• Free The Children (WE Charity): Nonprofit operating schools and clean water projects in developing regions with volunteer expedition programs, similar in integrated mission and donor engagement model.
• charity: water: Nonprofit funding clean water projects in developing countries — directly comparable to Africompassion's borehole-and-village water delivery in Kogaja and Nyamasanda.
• Water.org: Nonprofit focused on clean water and sanitation access in developing regions; an adjacent but larger mission peer for Africompassion's water-infrastructure component.
• buildOn: Nonprofit that builds primary schools in low-income communities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and runs youth service expeditions — directly parallel to Africompassion's school-and-service-trip model in Tanzania.
• Splash: Nonprofit providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene in schools in developing countries — closely comparable school-anchored WASH model.

Emerging players

• African Library Project: Nonprofit establishing libraries and educational resources in rural African communities — comparable regional education mission for Africompassion's planned school library component.
• DafroKids Foundation: Small nonprofit supporting orphaned and vulnerable children in rural Ethiopia through education and self-reliance programs — comparable model to Africompassion's child sponsorship and self-reliance framing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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