2025-08-27T10:06:46-00:00 2024-12-31 621813735 Foundation Group Inc 2451 Atrium Way Suite 300 Nashville TN 37214 990 2024-01-01 820537124 Royal African Foundation ROYA 8017558078 473 East 12th Avenue Salt Lake City UT 84103 Petrina Bestor Secretary Treasurer 8017558078 2025-08-27 true Shannon M Evans EA P01691628 6153619445 2025-08-27 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Petrina Bestor 473 East 12th Avenue Salt Lake City UT 84103 441715 false X https://royalafrican.com/the-foundation/ X 2001 UT The foundations mission is to create and nurture projects which benefit communities, wilderness and wildlife. 7 6 0 30 0 485702 441715 0 0 0 485702 441715 403971 160235 0 23328 0 6359 20623 211140 424594 394703 61108 47012 326796 373808 0 326796 373808 X The foundations mission is to create and nurture projects which benefit communities, wilderness and wildlife. false false 48955 Education Sponsorships The Royal African Foundation believes in the power of education and sponsors students to achieve their dreams of finishing their schooling. Over the lifetime of this project, many of our previous students have become forces for positive change for their rural communities and the wilderness areas they come from. In 2024 a total of 54 students were sponsored in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda through this program. We look forward to continuing to sponsor these and more students who come to us for help to stay in school when they would not otherwise be able to. 36548 The Sand River Region The Royal African Foundation funds strategic programs to protect the Sand Rivers migration routes that link the Mara, Serengetti, and Rift Valley ecosystems. Among the most biodiverse areas on Earth, it faces growing threats from land subdivision and unplanned development, which disrupt wildlife movement and increase human-wildlife conflcit. To address this, we support community education, enterprise, health, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation projects. We also support biodiversity research and monitoring, and advocacy efforts to preserve this essential landscape for people and wildlife alike. 32400 KPSGA Curriculum Reform Project The Royal African Foundation supported the Kenya Professional Safari Guide Association KPSGA in modernising its training and certification system for local guides. Founded in 1996, the KPSGA created a merit-based system for local Kenyan safari guides to advance in their careers through its bronze, silver, and gold exams, which thousands of guides have taken. With our support, the examination council, led by KPSGA Gold Guide and environmental history professor Willis Okech Oyugi, has completed a comprehensive update of all three syllabi, with greater emphasis on conservation, ethics, hospitality, and environmental stewardship. New accreditations are being pursued, and course readers are in development to make these materials more accessible. This work aims to empower Kenyan guides to progress in their careers and become better custodians of Kenyas incredible natural heritage. 232351 160235 350254 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 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 7 6 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA FL KS NC NY UT VA X Foundation Group Inc 6153619445 2451 Atrium Way Ste 300 Nashville TN 37214 Emma Silvester President 040.00 X X 23328 0 0 Inderjeet Bilkhu Director 001.00 X 0 0 0 John Hemingway Director 001.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Katherine Bell Director 001.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Turner Director 001.00 X 0 0 0 Peter Silvester Director 001.00 X 0 0 0 Tim Corfield Director 001.00 X 0 0 0 Petrina Bestor Secretary / Treasurer 002.00 X 0 0 0 23328 false false false 441715 441715 441715 40750 40750 0 119485 119485 0 21600 21600 0 0 1728 1728 0 0 0 2361 2361 6245 6245 0 0 0 0 5492 5492 14 14 0 0 4425 2076 2349 0 0 0 0 0 650 650 Direct Project Expenses 187943 187943 Licenses, Fees, Dues 3250 3250 Volunteer Appreciation 760 760 0 394703 350254 38090 6359 326496 373508 300 300 326796 373808 0 0 X 311734 355746 15062 18062 326796 373808 326796 373808 47012 X false false false X 128378 348327 430819 485702 441715 1834941 128378 348327 430819 485702 441715 1834941 404683 1430258 1834941 0.77950 0.85590 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED true Sub-Saharan Africa 1 Grants to recipients located in the region. N/A 119485 Sub-Saharan Africa 1 Program Services Community Conservation program expenditures. 190019 2 2 309504 309504 Sub-Saharan Africa Tanzania wildlife conservation efforts 35000 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Student Tuition and First Aid Kits 11000 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Preschool Renovations 21897 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Education and Teachers Salaries 12000 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Wildlife conservation support 10000 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Vehicle for Medical Team 8025 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Community Development Agriculture 7750 WIRE Sub-Saharan Africa Womens education empowerment 5813 WIRE 8 false false false false false false Part I Line 2 The board of directors reviews proposed recipients to determine needs and proposed uses of grant funds. The recipients are then routinely monitored via financial progress reports, to ensure the funds are being used accordingly to accomplish the proposed purpose. true Big Life Foundation 1715 North Heron Drive Ridgefield WA 98642 273455389 501c3 40000 Support for Community Health Program 1 Part I Line 2 The board of directors reviews proposed recipients to determine needs and proposed uses of assistance. The recipients are then routinely monitored to ensure the assistance is being used accordingly to accomplish the proposed purpose. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 25,009, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 While Mwandamo Women were establishing themselves as an organisation, we worked with co-founders Hannah and Caroline to do three womens health projects in Tanzania. The first project was to to help to provide the Oltukai Dispensary with life-saving equipment like weighing scales for children and mothers, stethoscopes, delivery kits and a steriliser, all of which are fundamental for the clinic team to provide healthcare to women and children in this rural government dispensary near Lake Manyara. The second project was to buy and distribute 600 reusable Sanitary Towel kits to 350 women and 250 girls in the Oltukai and Esilalei villages bordering Manyara Ranch Conservancy. The third project was to make renovations to create a dedicated Maternity Unit at the Esilalei Community Health Dispensary. Then we helped them cover some of the legal costs to succesfully register as an I-NGO in Tanzania. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 6,442, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 NG12 Conservation Project - Sponsorship of three students from Gudigwa Village to attend applied for Chefs training course at Career Dreams Training Centre in Maun - Living Expenses Reimbursement. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 5,000, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Entasopia school has 671 pupils and only had one ablution block for the girls and boys with 7 toilets for the boys and 4 toilets for the girls. We helped put in a new toilet block for the girls with an eight-door pit latrine, a changing room, four water taps for washing hands, shelves, and one shower. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 5,733, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 There were not enough bunk beds in this small rural in Samburu with 307 students. So as part of this and the previous years expenditure we successfully extended the second boys dormitory to accomodate 12 extra beds, and then provided 62 new beds, mattresses, 100 sets of new bedding, and all new mosquito nets for the girls and boys dormitories. We then created a new boys washroom attached to the second boarding house. In addition we also did upgrades to the lights system we put in throughout the school. Then the builder we used was also able to make refurbishments to the nearby clinic including new windows, doors, seats for patients and nurses. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 29,932, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Royal African Foundation funded a Projects Officer to directly oversee the execution and effective completion of various projects for the Royal African Foundation. The Projects Officer is located in Kenya and is employed by Safeguard Global Employment Outsourcing. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 119,485, Grants and allocations 119,485, Revenue 0 Royal African Foundation provided various grants to foreign partner NGOs that aligned with Royal Africans Mission of promoting community and conservation. Further detail can be seen on Schedule F. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Program Service Expenses 40,750, Grants and allocations 40,750, Revenue 0 Royal African Foundation provided various grants to domestic partner charities that aligned with Royal Africans Mission of promoting community and conservation. Further detail can be seen on Schedule I. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Emma Silvester, President is the daughter of Peter Silvester, Director. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The organization reviews the 990 form at a board meeting prior to submitting to the IRS Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The organization enforced compliance with its conflict of interest policy by reviewing it periodically at board meetings. The board review and sign the policy annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The organization uses the following methods to establish compensation packages for its employees Compensation analysis for similar roles, experience, and responsibilities comparability data from other organizations and relevant regions and contemporaneous review, deliberation and approval by the board.