The Yanapuma Foundation believes that our donors, partners and beneficiaries deserve to know how Yanapuma is governed, how we spend our money and how we are internally organized. We are committed to the principles of transparency and accountability and to that end we publish our internal working documents, financial statements and annual report.  Please feel free to communicate with us if you would like any other information about our organization.

Our Spanish school and Volunteer programs provide the principal funding to cover our basic administrative overheads, which means that we do not need to include high levels of overhead in any funding applications that we make. This also gives us a measure of independence as we are not reliant upon receiving funding in order to remain alive as a foundation. However, our level of activity as a foundation remains tied to the level of funding that we are receiving.

When a donation is made we establish or add the funds to an existing account, and as the funds are used we keep a running balance for each community account or particular project account. So whether the donation or project funding is $200 or $200,000, we will always be able to account for how the funds are being used, and are happy to be in regular contact with donors regarding progress of any particular project. Our bimonthly newsletter contains details of our ongoing projects.

The graphic below shows our sources of income for the foundation for 2009.

Click here for a Profit and Loss statement for 2009.

Below is a graph showing the growth of Yanapuma as an organization since its beginnings in September 2006 with a forecast for growth during 2010.

The chart below shows how Yanapuma disposed of the income for the foundation ($47,194.00), combined with the contribution of volunteer groups to various communities ($54,569.80), to show how much of our income was used directly in the communities that we work with. The volunteer activities not only produced a profit of $4,168 for the foundation, but the various groups gave to the communities for materials and projects, as well as food and lodging.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.