2023-06-15T13:57:03-04:00 2022-12-31 275169784 COOPER SAVAS LLC 6405 SOUTH 3000 EAST 201 SALT LAKE CITY UT 841216990 990 2022-01-01 820537124 ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION INC ROYA 8017558078 473 EAST 12TH AVENUE SALT LAKE CITY UT 84103 PETRINA BESTOR SECRETARY/TREASURER 8017558078 2023-05-31 true PETRINA BESTOR XXX-XX-XXXX false SAM DEDRICKSON P01781346 8014532080 2023-05-31 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z PETRINA BESTOR 473 E 12TH AVENUE SALT LAKE CITY UT 84103 430819 false X ROYALAFRICANSAFARIS.COM/THE-FOUNDATION X THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT COMMUNITIES AND CONSERVATION IN KENYA, TANZANIA, BOTSWANA, AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 8 8 0 29 0 348327 430819 0 0 0 348327 430819 249119 345728 0 0 0 6932 4762 20021 253881 365749 94446 65070 200618 265688 0 200618 265688 X THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT COMMUNITIES AND CONSERVATION IN KENYA, TANZANIA, BOTSWANA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. ITS PURPOSE IS TO BENEFIT WILDLIFE AND WILDERNESS PRESERVATION, CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL SPORTS COMPETITIONS, PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN OR ANIMALS, AND/OR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVORS. false false 86894 SAND RIVER ELEPHANT CORRIDOR THIS PROJECT AIMS TO KEEP THE MAASAI MARA AND THE SACRED MAASAI NAIMINA ENKIYIO FOREST CONNECTED IN A WAY THAT BENEFITS WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE. WE ARE ACHIEVING THIS THROUGH A COMBINATION OF: ADVOCACY & LAND USE PLANNING WORK; EMPOWERING COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS, AND INVESTING IN ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES THAT DON'T CONFLICT WITH WILDLIFE (INCL. BEEKEEPING & GROW BAGS). 24604 EDUCATION SPONSORSHIPS WE SPONSOR STUDENTS IN KENYA, TANZANIA AND ETHIOPIA TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS OF FINISHING SCHOOL, AND BECOME FORCES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. IN 2022 WE SPONSORED 32 STUDENTS. 11117 WESTGATE LPUS LELUAI SCHOOL THIS SCHOOL HAD 308 STUDENTS BUT ONLY 3 TOILETS. WE BUILT THEM 4 MORE TOILETS AND RESTOCKED AND REFURBISHED THEIR SCHOOL LIBRARY. WE ALSO REPAIRED THEIR SOLAR LIGHTS SYSTEM (WHICH WE PUT IN, IN 2009) AS IT HAD BROKEN. 223113 223113 ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES UNDER STATED ORGANIZATION MISSION 223113 223113 345728 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true true false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 8 8 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false false false false false FL NY NC UT VA X PETRINA BESTOR 8017558078 473 E 12TH AVENUE SALT LAKE CITY UT 84103 X PETER SILVESTER DIRECTOR 1.00 X 0 0 0 TIM CORFIELD OFFICER 1.00 X 0 0 0 MICHAEL TURNER DIRECTOR 1.00 X 0 0 0 INDI BILKHU DIRECTOR 1.00 X 0 0 0 PETRINA BESTOR SECRETARY/TR 2.00 X X 0 0 0 EMMA SILVESTER PRESIDENT 40.00 X X 0 0 0 JOHN HEMINWAY DIRECTOR 1.00 X 0 0 0 MARY KATHERINE BELL DIRECTOR 1.00 X 0 0 0 false false false 430819 430819 430819 79613 79613 266115 266115 4983 4983 4745 4745 9643 2711 6932 650 650 365749 345728 13089 6932 200318 265388 300 300 200618 265688 0 0 X 125618 226318 75000 39370 200618 265688 200618 265688 65070 X true X false true false X 38870 34500 128378 148327 227021 577096 38870 34500 128378 148327 227021 577096 102331 474765 577096 0.82270 0.82890 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED true SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA PROGRAM SERVICES SEE ATTACHED 266115 266115 266115 GYM CONSTRUCTION 16628 HEALTH CLINIC 27100 PRESCHOOL 18000 WATER PROJECTS 50925 COMMUNITY TEACHERS 10000 REFUGEE SUPPORT 6742 OTHER 136720 false false false false false false SCHEDULE F, PAGE 1, PART I, LINE 3 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 266,115 0 SCHEDULE F, PAGE 5, PART V SCHEDULE F THE ORGANIZATION WORKS CLOSELY WITH EACH OF THE ENTITIES THAT ARE GRANTED MONEY OUTSIDE OF THE US AND APPROVES EXPENDITURES AS NEEDED. THE ORGANIZATION HAS VOLUNTEERS LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE AREAS, WHO WORK CLOSELY WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING GRANTS TO ENSURE THAT THE FUNDS ARE USED FOR THE INTENDED PURPOSE. SCH F, PART I, ACTIVITIES PER REGION MISSION THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT COMMUNITIES AND CONSERVATION IN KENYA, TANZANIA, BOTSWANA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. ITS PURPOSE IS TO BENEFIT WILDLIFE AND WILDERNESS PRESERVATION, CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL SPORTS COMPETITIONS, PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN OR ANIMALS, AND/OR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVORS. WE MAKE GRANTS EVERY YEAR TO A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS IN KENYA, TANZANIA, BOTSWANA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. WE ALSO FACILITATE OUR OWN PROJECTS. FROM LARGER PROJECTS SUCH AS THE SAND RIVER CORRIDOR PROJECT (WHICH AIMS TO KEEP A CORRIDOR OPEN BETWEEN THE MAASAI MARA AND THE SACRED MAASAI NAIMINA ENKIYIO FOREST IN A WAY THAT BENEFITS PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE IN THIS AREA), TO SMALLER PROJECTS LIKE IMPROVING SECURITY AND FACILITIES AT RURAL SCHOOLS TO REDUCE HUMAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT AND CREATE BENEFITS FOR LIVING ALONGSIDE WILDLIFE. VOLUNTEERS THE FOUNDATION CURRENTLY HAS 29 ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE BASED IN 7 COUNTRIES. SAND RIVER CORRIDOR PROJECT THE SAND RIVER CORRIDOR IS ONE OF THE KEY WILDLIFE CORRIDORS FOR ELEPHANTS BETWEEN THE MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, NAIMINA ENKIYIO - THE SACRED FOREST, AND THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY NEAR THE KENYA-TANZANIA BORDER. A NUMBER OF CORRIDORS ARE BEING IDENTIFIED IN THIS AREA USING GEOGRAPHIC AND ELEPHANT COLLAR TRACKING DATA COLLECTED BY OUR PARTNERS THE MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT (MEP). THE CORRIDOR HAS AN ALTITUDE VARIANCE OF 1000 FEET, AND IT LINKS AREAS WITH INCREDIBLE BIODIVERSITY. IT IS PART OF WHAT KEEPS THE MARA, RIFT VALLEY, SERENGETI, AND AMBOSELI ECOSYSTEMS CONNECTED. KEEPING CORRIDORS LIKE THIS ONE OPEN IS CRITICAL BECAUSE IT ALLOWS WILDLIFE AND COMMUNITIES TO ACCESS DIFFERENT RESOURCES AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE YEAR AND MAINTAIN ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RESILIENCE TO CHANGES IN CLIMATE. THE AREA HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN COMMUNALLY OWNED RANGELANDS BELONGING TO SEMI-NOMADIC PASTORALIST MAASAI COMMUNITIES, BUT RECENT GOVERNMENT POLICY CHANGES MEAN THE LANDSCAPE IS BEING SUBDIVIDED AND SHARED OUT INTO SMALL INDIVIDUAL TITLES. PARTS OF THIS WILDERNESS AREA HAVE ALREADY BEEN FENCED AND CONVERTED INTO PATCHWORKS OF SMALL FARMS, WHICH RESTRICT CONNECTIVITY AND INCREASE HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT. WE AND OUR PARTNERS CWCT, MEP AND THE FOREST GUARDIANS ARE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITIES ALONG THE CORRIDOR TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE LAND USE PLANS THAT BENEFIT THEM AND KEEP THIS CORRIDOR OPEN FOR THEM AND FOR WILDLIFE. WE HAVE ALSO STARTED TO INVEST IN DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITIES, SUCH AS BEEKEEPING AND GROW BAGS, WHICH HELP TO REDUCE HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT ALONG THE CORRIDOR. IN ADDITION TO THIS WE ARE WORKING TO DEVELOP NEW PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITIES ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND EMPOWER THEM TO FORM ORGANISATIONS WE CAN PARTNER WITH ON THIS PROJECT. IN 2021 WE HELPED OSERO COMMUNITY FOOTBALL LEAGUE REGISTER AS A CBO ORGANISATION, AND IN 2022 WE HELPED IT TO DEVELOP ITS OWN SUSTAINABLE REVENUE SOURCES IN ORDER TO EMPOWER THE OVER 150 YOUNG PEOPLE IT REPRESENTS. IN 2022 WE ALSO HELPED OLDERKESI COMMUNITY SPORTS LEAGUE TO REGISTER AS A CBO AND WE HOPE TO CONTINUE TO HELP OTHERS TO DO THE SAME. EDUCATION SPONSORSHIPS PROGRAM WE SPONSOR STUDENTS FROM KENYA, TANZANIA AND ETHIOPIA TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS OF FINISHING THEIR EDUCATION. SO FAR THE PROGRAM HAS SUPPORTED 58 STUDENTS AND MANY OF THEM HAVE BECOME FORCES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. IN 2022 WE SPONSORED A TOTAL OF 32 STUDENTS IN KENYA, TANZANIA AND ETHIOPIA ONE OF WHOM WAS DAVID. WE HELPED DAVID TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL AND IS HIS STORY: MY NAME IS DAVID, AND I AM NINETEEN. I WAS BORN IN OLNG'AENET VILLAGE NAIKARRA WARD. WHEN I GREW UP, I HAD MY FATHER, MY MOTHER, AND MY STEPMOTHER. WE WERE NINETEEN CHILDREN, TEN BOYS AND NINE GIRLS. ALL OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE. MY MOTHER AND STEPMOTHER ARE STILL ALIVE, BUT MY FATHER PASSED AWAY TEN YEARS AGO. I STARTED SCHOOL AT OUR VILLAGE SCHOOL, OLPALAGILAGI PRIMARY SCHOOL IN THE YEAR 2011. I STARTED GRADE ONE WITHOUT DOING IN NURSERY OR BABY CLASS BECAUSE, AT THAT TIME, I WAS A BIG BOY TO START AT THAT LEVEL OF EDUCATION. I WAS THE ONLY ONE MY MOTHER HAD TO PAY SCHOOL FEES FOR FROM GRADE ONE THROUGH SIX BECAUSE MY OLDER SIBLINGS DID NOT LEARN ABOUT EDUCATION. THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY EDUCATION BECAUSE OF THIS. AS THE COST OF SCHOOL FEES INCREASED FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL, I MYSELF WENT TO SEARCH FOR A JOB SO THAT I COULD EARN SOMETHING FOR SCHOOL FEES. I THANK GOD FOR THE TIME THAT I HAVE SPENT WITH MZEE UHURU AS HE KNEW MY EDUCATION WAS IMPORTANT, AND HE GAVE ME A JOB DURING THE HOLIDAYS. I REALLY APPRECIATE HIM TOGETHER WITH MY LOVELY OTHER DAD PETER SILVESTER. I CONTINUED WITH THE SUPPORT OF MZEE UHURU, AND THEN WHEN I CAME TO SECONDARY SCHOOL MY FEES INCREASED A LOT. THEN YOU HELPED ME THROUGH THE ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION AND NOW I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL. I THANK GOD FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THANK ALL FROM ROYAL AFRICAN. GOD WILL REMEMBER YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. (UHURU IS ONE OF OUR ROYAL AFRICAN FOUNDATION VOLUNTEERS, AND PETER SILVESTER IS ONE OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS). WESTGATE LPUS LELUAI SCHOOL LPUS LELUAI SCHOOL, IS A VERY RURAL SCHOOL IN WESTGATE COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY IN SAMBURU COUNTY, NORTHERN KENYA. IT ALREADY HAD SOME SCHOOL BUILDINGS WHEN WE FIRST VISITED IT IN 2008, BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE MUCH MORE THAN THAT. OVER THE YEARS, THEY HAVE ASKED FOR HELP AND WE AND OUR DONORS HAVE HELPED THEM BY INSTALLING A SOLAR LIGHTING SYSTEM IN 2009, AN ELECTRIC FENCE TO STOP ELEPHANTS FROM CHASING THE STUDENTS IN THE GROUNDS (WHICH WE REPAIRED IN 2021). TOGETHER WE HAVE ALSO DONATED THINGS LIKE DESKS, SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONARY, SANITARY TOWELS FOR GIRLS, MIRRORS, FOOD SUPPLIES, GUTTERS, AND A WATER COLLECTION TANK. IN 2022, AFTER 13 YEARS, THE SOLAR LIGHTS SYSTEM NEEDED REPAIRS AND ALL THE BOARDING STUDENTS WERE HAVING TO HUDDLE IN ONE CLASSROOM TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK AT NIGHT. SO SOME OF OUR DONORS GENEROUSLY DONATED FOR US TO REPAIR IT AND ADD EXTRA SECURITY LIGHTS TO THE OUTSIDE. ALSO, IN 2022, THE SCHOOL HAD A TOTAL OF 308 STUDENTS, BUT ONLY 3 TOILETS. SO WITH THE HELP OF OUR DONORS, WE BUILT THEM 4 MORE TOILETS. WE ALSO RESTOCKED AND REFURBISHED THEIR SCHOOL LIBRARY WITH TEXTBOOKS AND EXTRA- CURRICULAR BOOKS WHICH ARE BRINGING THEM LOTS OF ENJOYMENT AND BENEFITTING THEIR STUDIES THIS IS SHOWN BECAUSE IN 2022 THEY BECAME THE BEST PERFORMING SCHOOL IN THEIR SAMBURU EAST CONSTITUENCY. true SIDEKICK FOUNDATION 4000 W 106TH STREET STE 125-238 CARMEL IN 46032 27000 ELEPHANT PROTECTION BIG LIFE FOUNDATION 1715 NORTH HERON DRIVE RIDGEFIELD WA 98642 32063 COMMUNITY HEALTH SARARA FOUNDATION 1031 33RD STREET DENVER CO 80205 13550 ELEPHANT SANCTUARY OTHER 7000 OTHER GRANTS FORM 990 - ORGANIZATION'S MISSION THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT COMMUNITIES AND CONSERVATION IN KENYA, TANZANIA, BOTSWANA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. ITS PURPOSE IS TO BENEFIT WILDLIFE AND WILDERNESS PRESERVATION, CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL SPORTS COMPETITIONS, PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN OR ANIMALS, AND/OR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVORS. FORM 990, PAGE 2, PART III, LINE 4D ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES UNDER STATED ORGANIZATION MISSION FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 2 PETER SILVESTER EMMA SILVESTER FATHER FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 11B THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES A COPY OF THE TAX RETURN TO EACH OF THE BOARD MEMBERS PRIOR TO THE BOARD MEETING. EACH OF THE BOARD MEMBERS REVIEW THE RETURN PRIOR TO THE MEETING; THE RETURN IS DISCUSSED DURING THE MEETING BEFORE BEING APPROVED BY THE BOARD. FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 12C ALL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST MUST BE DISCLOSED AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE POLICY IS MONITORED BY THE BOARD OF THE FOUNDATION. BOARD MEMBERS SIGN POLICY ANNUALLY. FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 19 GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST.