2025-09-24T13:52:24-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 372049039 RAISE UP THE ROOF FOUNDATION INC RAIS 8579997257 138 Cambridge Road Woburn MA 01801 Edmund Ugwoegbu President 8579997257 2025-09-16 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.RaiseUpTheRoof.org X X 95747 X 95745 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 95747 80076 0 0 0 0 0 7750 87826 7921 52858 0 60779 X 42226 38884 10832 19313 0 2582 53058 60779 200 0 52858 60779 To promote social justice and advocacy for people with disabilities based on the social teaching of the Catholic Church. Activities include education, social outreach, economic development, health care, and evangelization. Also, to conduct other such activities in furthering of the foregoing purpose. Objective: Provide a reliable new drinking source of water for a multitude of residents. A deep well was dug, and all related infrastructure was built, a generator was acquired, and a new multi-faucet water supply station was constructed with adjacent water tower supply for Nmidbara village. This project is estimated to benefit approximately 5,000 individuals, of which about 20% are estimated to be physically disadvantaged in some manner. 0 23577 Objective: Provide educational tuition, school fees, and scholarships to underprivileged individuals. Provided full scholarships to two outstanding financially poor individuals to attend school. Provided a mix of school fees, tuition fees, exam fees, hostel fees and textbooks for 78 primary school students, one boarding school student, 37 secondary school students, 36 post-high school and university students, 10 drop-out students, one student attending a school for social work, and 1 student in the seminary. 0 18620 Objective: Provide social and humanitarian outreach to underprivileged for housing, food, clothing, living necessities, counseling, and including Christmas outreach. Provided and Benefitted: Housing and related necessity costs for economically and physically disadvantaged (19 persons benefitted). Economic outreach to the less privileged for food (rice bags), cash vouchers and basic necessities (approximately 938 benefitted); repair costs for a damaged church building in Mamfe (estimated 700 benefitted); provided school meals for 265 elementary school students; economic assistance to an estimated 100 widows from two parishes; and provided burial financial assistance for three individuals. 0 16308 Objective: Provide educational infrastructure support for economically disadvantaged students; particularly those students from the hinterland and villages. Provided: toilet facilities for an elementary school and a nursery school which benefitted an estimated 1,260 students and teachers; textbooks for 51 primary school children and 6 other special needs students; and provided uniforms, books, and bags for 10 economically disadvantaged students. 0 7545 Objective: Provide financial support for religious order personnel in Nigeria and Cameroon who intersect with the work of the charitable foundation in various ways. Provided economic assistance to 73 priests directly impacted by the Cameroonian civil war; Medical subsidies were provided to a priest and educational assistance was provided to another priest; and general economic assistance was offered to 14 other priests, two of which were newly ordained and 12 assistance the foundation in introducing the water project to the village community. 0 6681 Objective: Provide general medical aid and supplies to economically challenged areas and provide support payments and, or full hospital payments for economically or physically disadvantaged individuals or indigent patients. Economic aid provided to a teaching hospital for the benefit of an estimated 1,000 current and future underprivileged patients; medication support for a handicapped woman and 4 financially poor persons; and payment of hospital bills for 16 physically and/or economically challenged individuals. 0 4223 Objective: Provide basic skills training costs, and necessary related equipment to economically and physically underprivileged individuals. Provided and Benefitted: Financial and administrative support for an estimated 500 individuals working on a Catholic managed farm; small scale business assistance for two financially poor women; training for an orphan girl learning tailoring; and training physically challenged girl learning shoe making and mending. 0 3122 80076 Father Edmund Ugwoegbu President 15 0 0 0 Thomas Pasakarnis Treasurer 5 0 0 0 Father Modestus Onwumelu Clerk 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA Thomas Pasakarnis 138 Cambridge Road Woburn MA 01801 7814915981 1 CM NI 1 NI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 0 227200 164830 95745 487775 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 227200 164830 95745 487775 0 0 40000 40100 54658 134758 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40000 40100 54658 134758 353017 0 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 227200 164832 95747 487779 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Interest income Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Other expenses include airfare of $3,158; website, software, and IT costs of $1,783; office supplies and miscellaneous of $648; other hotel and travel costs of $992; fundraising and advertising of $584; bank fees and service charges of $435; and government filing fees of $150. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 other Assets include: Prepaid expenses of $1,650 and miscellaneous other current assets of $932.