Advocates for Africa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465508120
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Bixby, OK, USA
- Phone
- 8773648362
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,277,995
- Expenses
- $1,106,242
- Assets
- $10,693,638
- Liabilities
- $1,212,523
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jason Smith (President)
- Jerod Smith (Founder/Former President)
Highest reported compensation
- Nathan R Carson (Accountant): $149,700 total reported compensation
- Jerod Smith (Founder/Former President): $99,920 total reported compensation
- Katina Smith (Founder/Former Executive): $66,736 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
AFA is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable children and their families in Rwanda and other African communities through education, compassionate care, and community support. We work to provide hope and sustainable opportunities by facilitating access to educational programs, family assistance, and holistic child development initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the year, Advocates for Africa continued advancing its charitable mission through child sponsorship and educational support programs. The organization provided tuition assistance, educational materials, academic instruction, counseling services, and spiritual mentorship to vulnerable children. Additional support included food assistance and other welfare services aimed at improving the overall quality of life and long-term development of participating children and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - Program spending has grown recently 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.67; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.