Where Does My Donation Go? How Much Actually Reaches Kenya

None of it, at the platform level. Our donation forms run on Zeffy, which is free for nonprofits — no platform fee, no per-transaction processing cut taken from your gift. When you give $25, $25 arrives.

Zeffy funds itself by asking donors — optionally — to add a voluntary contribution at checkout. That tip is yours to set, including to zero. It does not change how much of your donation reaches us.

We size our programs so that a gift maps to a physical thing a family receives, rather than to a percentage of a budget:

• $15 — a HopeKit that keeps a girl in school for two to three years.
• $25 — one garden tower, feeding a family of five fresh vegetables year-round.
• $30 — a thermal cooker that cuts a household's firewood use dramatically.
• $150 — a 1,000-liter rainwater capture system serving 50 to 100 people.
• $1,000 — a protected spring serving 500 to 1,000 people for decades.

You can give to any of these directly on the donate page.

Yes. Each of our five pillars — Sustainable Food, Clean Water, Education, Health, and Economic Opportunities — has its own donation form. Choosing one directs your gift to that program. If you'd rather we put it where the need is sharpest that month, use the general fund instead; that is what we lean on for repairs, transport, and the unglamorous costs that make the visible work possible.

Program spending is planned with our Kenyan directors, who live in the communities they serve and know which family is next on the list. That is also why monthly giving matters more than its size suggests: a predictable monthly total lets a director commit to a build schedule instead of waiting to see what arrives.

Our 501(c)(3) status and EIN 82-1048388 are searchable on the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Our annual filings and financial summaries are posted on our financials page, and the fuller trust breakdown — leadership, history, programs — lives at Is 100 Humanitarians legit?

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