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Kenya’s charity reporting and finances

Compare three years of Kenya’s regulator-reported filing coverage and receipts. See where the latest report records spending.

Kenya’s Public Benefit Organizations Regulatory Authority (PBORA) and its predecessor publish annual sector reports. The financial amounts here come from those reports. Tables display billions of Kenyan shillings (KES) rounded to two decimals. The downloads retain the reported amounts and source pages.

Who is counted in the reports

The regulator’s cumulative and active registration counts describe the register at each report’s cutoff. Filing counts describe the period’s submissions. The reports draw their receipt figures from reported finances. The composition of that reporting group can change across years.

Report yearRegistrations since inceptionActive at cutoffAnnual reportsAudited accounts
2022/2312,643 10,2792,829 1,188
2023/2413,602 11,2362,988 1,295
2024/2514,287 9,6093,212 1,034

Search Kenya’s official organization register by name or reference. PBORA’s transition advisory says an organization can receive a new reference while retaining its earlier one. The figures below describe groups of filers. Linking an amount to a specific organization requires its own public financial records.

Where reported receipts came from

The geographic categories describe the reported sources of funds. Add the geographic rows only within a year and use the report total once. The 2023/24 geographic rows sum to KES 0.01 less than the published total. The download keeps that difference visible.

Source region2022/232023/242024/25
Africa42.5045.6841.54
Asia3.927.834.75
Europe59.9265.6062.33
North America88.5685.5493.11
Oceania0.693.591.27
South America0.130.930.07
Unspecified0.280.8543.67
Published total196.00210.03246.74

Where reporting organizations spent funds

For 2024/25, the report’s expenditure table records KES 226.67 billion across all categories. It assigns KES 196.90 billion to Kenya and KES 29.76 billion to other countries.

Expense lineKenyaOther countriesTotal
Project costs141.79 25.53167.32
Local office staff41.72 3.4745.19
Tangible assets9.26 0.089.33
International office staff2.82 0.683.50
Administration0.81 —0.81
Other running costs0.24 0.000.25
Local program staff0.22 0.000.22
International program staff0.05 0.000.05
All reported expenditure196.9029.76226.67

For projects in Kenya, the expenditure table reports KES 141.79 billion. The same report’s sector table gives a total of KES 135.61 billion. Keep those figures tied to their respective tables. Connecting particular incoming funds to spending or measuring outcomes would require transaction or program records.

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Sources

  1. Annual NGO Sector Report 2022/2023 · Public Benefit Organizations Regulatory Authority and its predecessor
  2. Annual PBO Sector Report 2023/2024 · Public Benefit Organizations Regulatory Authority and its predecessor
  3. Annual PBO Sector Report 2024/2025 · Public Benefit Organizations Regulatory Authority and its predecessor
  4. Public register of organization names and references · PBORA
  5. Transition to the public benefit organization register · PBORA