Africa Faith and Justice Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521659498
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028173670
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $240,366
- Expenses
- $755,274
- Assets
- $780,560
- Liabilities
- $34,181
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steven Nabieu Rogers (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Steven Nabieu Rogers (Executive Director): $80,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Africa Faith and Justice Network, inspired by the Gospel and informed by Catholic Social Teaching, seeks to educate and advocate for just relations with Africa and to work in partnership with African peoples as they engage in the struggle for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation. Also to empower through education, advocacy, and communication about US and Africa relations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Communication and education on Just Governance: African bishops have identified corruption as Africa's major problem and describe it as a "cancer that stands in the way of Africa's development." AFJN works to empower communities in AFrica to tackle these problems. Land grabbing: Since 2008, foreign investors, some of whom are private banks and pension funds, have acquired massive tracts of farmland, resulting in displacement and loss of livelihood for many families. At the request of local people, AFJN organizes workshops and conferences, town hall meetings and radio programs to educate local communities about land grabbing, and support small-scale farmers and responsible investments in Africa's agricultural sector.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -214.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $520K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.