127 Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333601131
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Plains, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4172744033
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,557
- Expenses
- $42,134
- Assets
- $35,423
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Wiehe (President)
People named in this filing
- Melissa Wiehe (President)
- Kimberly Moore (Treasurer)
- Elizabeth Gill (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
127 Collective is a faith-based charitable organization providing job training and workforce development for widowed and vulnerable women in underserved communities, beginning in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, Africa. The organization exists to relieve poverty and reduce vulnerability to exploitation by providing dignified employment opportunities, vocational training, and supportive community care through the production and sale of handmade goods. 127 Collective equips women with practical skills such as jewelry making, sewing, and paper recycling to help provide sustainable income for themselves and their children. The organization also provides mentorship, discipleship, encouragement, and community support consistent with its charitable and religious purposes under Section 501(c)(3).
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided vocational training and dignified employment opportunities for widowed refugees in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi, through jewelry making, sewing, and handmade product production, in addition to providing safe housing, discipleship, prayer, mentorship and community support to widowed refugee women participating in the program
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.4%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 48.7%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.4% of revenue deployed · 48.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.