Africa Soil Information Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851096873
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Arusha, NM, Tanzania
- Phone
- +1-413-341-6577
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Physical & Earth Sciences,
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,440
- Expenses
- $63,232
- Assets
- $3,173
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Markus Walsh (Chief Scientist Board Chair)
- Barbara Walsh (Administrator, Board Secretary, Board Treasurer)
- Ricardo Rodriguez-Iglesias (Board Member)
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
Our mission is to empower governmental bodies, NGOs, and private sector organizations working in Africa with precise LULC and environmental mapping and monitoring solutions, fostering sustainable land, soil, and environmental management practices. Through expert analysis, innovative software, and targeted training, we aim to facilitate informed decision-making, promote resilient agricultural and rangeland management, and support the sustainable expansion of croplands and energy infrastructure. Committed to advancing soil health and combating the challenges of urbanization, AfSIS is dedicated to guiding our clients towards evidence-based, sustainable development and environmental stewardship.
What it reported doing in 2025
AfSIS is partnering with Amini AI of Nairobi, Kenya, to continue to map over 300,000 cocoa, rubber, and oil palm farms in Cote d'Ivoire with funding from the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa (KAAIA) and the United Nations World Food Project Innovation Accelerator. Cote d'Ivoire produces approximately 40% of the global cocoa supply, and it is a crucial component of the Ivorian economy, employing millions of people across the nation. This year AfSIS is also working with Amini to create a crop forecasting model using 30 years of crop yield and rainfall data. The model will be used to inform policies for a large company planning to offer crop insurance to small holder farmers in East Africa
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -86% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.