If you don’t have to give through a US501c3, please consider these incredible African community foundations and local grantmakers:

MICAIA Foundation (Chimoio, Mozambique)

Area of work - Mozambique
http://micaia.org/

Social Change Assistance Trust (Cape Town, South Africa)

Area of work - rural South Africa
http://www.scat.org.za/

South Sinai Foundation (South Sinai / UK)

Area of work - South Sinai, Egypt
https://www.southsinaifoundation.org/

STAR Ghana Foundation (Accra, Ghana)

Area of work - Ghana
https://www.star-ghana.org/

Twerwaneho Listeners Club (Fort Portal, Uganda)

Area of work - Western Uganda
https://www.tlc-uganda.org/

Twikatane Community Foundation (Lusaka, Zambia)

Area of work - Zambia
https://www.twikatanecf.org/

UHAI-EASHRI (Nairobi, Kenya)

Area of work - East Africa
https://uhai-eashri.org/

Uluntu Community Foundation (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)

Area of work - Matabeleland Provinces, Zimbabwe
http://uluntu.org/

Urgent Action Fund for Women (Harare, Zimbabwe)

Area of work - Africa
https://www.uaf-africa.org

West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) (Accra, Ghana)

Area of work - West Africa
https://www.wacsi.org/

XOESE, Le Fonds pour les Femmes Francophones (Lomé, Togo)

Area of work - Francophone West Africa
https://xoese.org/en/

Zambian Governance Foundation for Civil Society (ZGF) (Lusaka, Uganda)

Area of work - Zambia
http://www.zgf.org.zm/

ADESO (Nairobi, Kenya)

Area of work - Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan
https://adesoafrica.org/

African Women’s Development Fund (Accra, Ghana)

Area of work - Africa
https://awdf.org/

Civ-Source Africa/Civ Fund (Kampala, Uganda)

Area of work - Uganda
https://www.civsourceafrica.com/

Civil Collective (Kampala, Uganda)

Area of work - Uganda
https://civilcollective.net/

Community Development Foundation Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa)

Area of work - Western Cape, South Africa
http://www.communityfoundationwesterncape.org.za/

Community Foundation for the Western Region of Zimbabwe (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)

Area of work - Western Zimbabwe
https://comfoundzim.org/

DOCKDA Rural Development Agency (Cape Town, South Africa)

Area of work - Northern Cape, South Africa
http://www.dockda.org.za/

Foundation for Civil Society (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

Area of work - Tanzania
https://thefoundation.or.tz/

Ikhala Trust (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)

Area of work - Eastern Cape, South Africa
https://ikhala.org.za/

Kabale Municipality Development Foundation (Kabale, Uganda)

Area of work - Kabale, Uganda
http://www.kmdf.or.ug/

Kenya Community Development Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)

Area of work - Kenya
http://kcdf.or.ke/

Kilimani Project Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)

Area of work - Kilimani neighborhood, Nairobi, Kenya
https://www.kilimani.co.ke/