African Immigrants and Refugees Transition Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823189422
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5154226923
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,000
- Expenses
- $141,500
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- sharon ndikurugamba (Director)
- immaculee butare (assistant director)
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
Helping refugees and immigrants transition in a new country
What it reported doing in 2025
Early Childhood and Family Support Program Polk County Grant. The organization received a $35,000 grant from Polk County to provide early childhood and family support services to families with young children and expecting mothers in the community. The program focused on improving child development, supporting parents, and promoting healthy pregnancies and family well-being. Services provided included: Parenting classes and family education. Prenatal education for expecting mothers. Referrals to OBGYN and maternal healthcare providers. Early childhood educational activities and developmental support Care coordination and connections to community resources and support services, including referrals for housing, clothing, food, health, dental, and mental health services. During FY 2025, the organization served 143 children and supported 42 households through care coordination services, conducted 124 household assessments, and helped 102 households report that their needs were successfully met, representing an 82.3% success rate. The program helped families increase parenting knowledge, improve access to prenatal and healthcare services, and support healthy development and school readiness for young children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 67.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -56.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.