2016-12-15T11:04:28-07:00 2015-12-31 990EZ 2015-01-01 264479083 GNU FOUNDATION GNUF 4154970571 PO Box 29301 San Francisco CA 94129 james sempere President 4154970571 2016-12-13 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z X X www.gnufoundation.org X X 92984 X 92984 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92984 69819 0 0 5170 0 0 1696 76685 16299 46887 0 63186 46887 63186 0 0 0 0 46887 63186 0 0 46887 63186 Public Charity Microcredit Grants - We provide our local granting partners funds to carry out microcredit grants to persons in extreme poverty; grants were provided to more than 250 individuals directly impacting more than 1,500 family members. 27220 X 0 Social Business Grants - We provide grants to underwrite the costs of starting new micro businesses to support our local partners; these are focussed on agriculture; dairy; and other regionally applicable businesses. Our local partner use the profits from these social businesses to service their financial needs. The activity from these grants in 2015 have positively impacted over 200 family members. 16044 X 0 Family Empowerment program grants - We provide funding to local social support organizations working directly with the extreme poor to stabilize family participants until they are able to join one of the programs microcredit programs. in 2015 we provided services to over 700 families. 15048 X 0 0 James Sempere President 20 0 0 0 David Bagnani Board Secretary 1 0 0 0 Pamela Kohlberg Board Director 1 0 0 0 Paul McDowell Board Director 1 0 0 0 Elizabeth Dunaire Board Treasurer 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA James Sempere po box 29301 San Francisco CA 94129 4154970571 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 13702 21218 44079 49850 69819 198668 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13702 21218 44079 49850 69819 198668 0 198668 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 198668 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Grants Greater than $5,000: 1) Class of Activity: Microcredit and Social Business Grant Grantee Name: New Life School of Jacob/Palma Location: Jacob, Haiti Amount: $18,420 to fund goat and cattle cooperative No Relationship to Grantor 2) Class of Activity: Family Empowerment Program Grant Grantee Name: Macheo Children's Centre Location: Thika, Kenya Amount: $13,099 to support social workers and program field funding No Relationship to Grantor 3) Class of Activity: Social Business Grant Grantee Name: Rays of Hope Health Unit Location: Githongo Village, Meru, Kenya Amount: $6,845 to fund a food service business No Relationship to Grantor 4) Class of Activity: Microcredit Grant Grantee Name: The DISC Initiatives Location: Ol Donyo Sabuk, Kenya Amount: $5,340 to fund round 3 of microcredit loan program No Relationship to Grantor 5) Class of Activity: Microcredit and Social Business Grant Grantee Name: Esperanza para Guatemala Location: Guatemala City, Zone 18, Guatemala Amount: $5,000 No Relationship to Grantor Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Expenses for travel, bank fees, post office box rental and internet use service fees. The principal responsible for the filing was traveling extensively out of the country for field meetings with our local partners to service the needs of the Foundation and without access to the necessary foundation administrative documents needed for the filing.