2026-06-04T07:38:06-07:00 2024-12-31 273432629 Ascend Accounting & Business Solutions 21155 Whitfield Pl Ste 201 Sterling VA 20165 990 2024-01-01 371516674 Friends of the Congo FRIE 2025846512 1629 K Street NW Washington DC 20006 Maurice Carney Executive Director 2025846512 2025-05-13 true true Jamie Johnson Brown P01272312 7035439415 2026-06-04 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Maurice Carney 1629 K Street NW Washington DC 20006 1150112 false X friendsofthecongo.org X 2005 DC Raise consciousness about challenges in Congo and support Congolese institutions as they strive to bring about peace and lasting change. 6 6 0 15 0 0 291634 1150112 0 0 0 0 0 0 291634 1150112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 272509 1011202 272509 1011202 19125 138910 249860 125077 247476 238765 2384 -113688 Raise consciousness about challenges in Congo and support Congolese institutions as they strive to bring about peace and lasting change. false false 441225 0 0 Education of the public about the challenges in the Congo In 2024, Friends of the Congo pursued its three-pronged education program - Congo Week, Braking The Silence Speakers Tour and popular education. FOTC organizes Congo Week, the third week of each October. The 2024 Congo Week was the 17th annual event. FOTC coordinates people throughout the globe to participate in the week of workshops, forums, teach-ins, film screenings, rallies, fundraisers, benefit concerts and a host of other activities organized locally in different parts of the world. The flagship event of Congo Week is Congo in Harlem. It is a film and event series where Congolese filmmakers, musicians, artists, intellectuals and practitioners descend on Harlem each year to promote and highlight Congolese cultures and Congos contribution to world civilization. The second of the three programs is the Breaking the Silence speakers tour. Friends of the Congos speakers conducts teach-ins both in person and irtually throughout the globe. The tour officially kicks off on February first and officially ends on July 2nd. However, in reality it lasts all year long as team members are engaged in teach-ins and speaking engagements year round. In addition to participating in the forums, workshops, and other educational programs throughout the year, FOTC coordinates and facilitates local educational forums by providing films, materials, ideas and recommendations to local groups organizing educational forums on the Congo. 458972 0 0 Support to frontline organizations in the Congo In regard to providing support to frontline organizations in the Congo, Friends of the Congo supports the Basandja Coalition and their allies in all four corners of the Congo. They have a reach of an approximately two million Congolese. We provide the Coalition with grants to deliver humanitarian relief in the form of deliver of food, medicine, medical equipment and materials, building wells, expanding farm land, building shelter, and a host of other humanitarian relief efforts that address the material and social well being of Congolese inhabitants in distress. 900197 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 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 6 6 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true false true true false false false DC X The Organization 2025846512 1629 K Street NW Washington DC 20006 Carrie Crawford Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Paul Pumphrey Treasurer 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Lyndon Wilburg Secretary 4.00 X X 0 0 0 Maurice Carney Executive Director 40.00 X X 42000 0 0 Samuel Livingston Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Samuel Yagase Member 15.00 X 0 0 0 Patricia Ndombe Member 5.00 X 12000 0 0 54000 0 0 false false false 1150112 1150112 0 0 0 0 0 1150112 0 0 0 202172 139808 62364 0 18961 13272 5689 0 5537 3876 1661 0 10097 7068 3029 0 38637 27046 11591 0 68282 68282 0 0 800 800 0 0 14480 0 14480 0 1523 0 1523 0 Program expenses 636438 636438 0 0 Bank fees 9104 0 9104 0 Postage 867 867 0 0 State registration fees 340 0 340 0 3964 2740 1224 0 1011202 900197 111005 0 40103 124741 209757 336 249860 125077 47754 38765 199722 200000 247476 238765 X 0 0 2384 -113688 2384 -113688 249860 125077 138910 -254982 X false false false X 0 236520 335983 315620 357678 1150212 2396013 0 0 236520 335983 315620 357678 1150212 2396013 0 2396013 0 958 0 0 0 0 958 0 2396971 0.99960 X 0 0 0 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Moewutu LLC ED owns co operating X 58380 11827 false true false Maurice Carney Exec Dir operating X 123648 21438 false true false Ewunike Akpan ED wife operating X 23265 0 false true false Yolisawa Akpan ED mother in law operating X 9500 5500 false true false 38765 Pt VI, Line 19 Documents available upon request. Pt VI, Line 11b The Executive Director reviews and approves prior to filing. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Admin support 2446. 0. 2446. 0. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Contractors 199726. 139808. 59918. 0.