Afrika Tikkun USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134095132
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,503
- Expenses
- $1,228,467
- Assets
- $118,587
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- Johan van Niekerk (Treasurer)
- J Eric Wright (Chairman)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization was formed to provide funding from donors in the usa toPrograms managed and implemented by Afrika Tikkun South Africa, a separateEntity operating as a chartered non-governmental organization in SouthAfrica. Afrika Tikkun South Africa provides an integrated range ofPrograms and services in severely disadvantaged communities. ThesePrograms focus on enabling hiv-positive, child-headed households, orphans, And other vulnerable youth from "cradle to career", and include foodSecurity, health services, education, life skills, job training, and jobPlacement.Our aim is to empower communities to develop new generations of productiveCitizens and is achieved through a holistic development model. It isDelivered from purpose-built centers of excellence within the townships inWhich we operate. The model starts with the support and care of infants inA vulnerable home situation and ends with contributing members of society.We deliver five core interrelated services that nurture, educate
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization was formed to provide funding from donors in the USA toprograms managed and impliemented by afrika tikkun south africa, a separate entity operating as a chartered non-governmental organization in south africa. Afrika tikkun south africa provides an integrated range ofprograms and services, in severely disadvantaged communities. Theseprograms focus on enabling HIV-positive, child-headed households, orphans, and other vulnerable youth from "cradle to career", and include foodsecurity, health services, education, life skills, job training, and jobplacement.address in south africa:57 6th roadeastwood buildinghyde park, sandtonjohannesburg, 2196gautengsouth africa
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -848.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.