Agape Pamoja Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824477609
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lees Summit, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8166689782
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $424,630
- Expenses
- $563,804
- Assets
- $2,040,194
- Liabilities
- $130,436
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Krystal Dunahee (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Brent Gieseke (Board Member): $20,000 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 purpose of Agape Pamoja is to help serve the multi-faceted needs of refugees from war-torn countries residing in Kansas City by providing housing assistance, educational support, food, clothing, life skills, community involvement, leadership development and other needs while intentionally doing life together.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing affordable housing in Kansas City for refugee families is one of Agape Pamoja's missions, which is done through Blessing Houses. On average, families save $1,000 per month in rent and utilities, and Blessing Houses are furnished with all the basics families need. Most Blessing Houses experience a renovation time before families move in, providing the opportunity for Americans and refugees to do renovations together on homes. These are key times to better understanding one another's cultures, working together for a common goal, and learning basic skill sets. While it's easy to think that moving a family into a Blessing House is our end goal, it is actually just the beginning of an open door to do life together with many of the families. As of December 2024, Agape Pamoja has 25 refugee families residing in 20 Blessing Houses. One of these is a multi-family unit (apartments). This equates to over 175 individuals from the African refugee community living in a Blessing House. Agape Pamoja has 3 more units to renovate and move families into during 2024. More than 500 volunteers came together donating over 8,000 hours to renovate, furnish & maintain these homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
- 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 23%; rating input score 23; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -32.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.62; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $554K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 filed related-organization links
- 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: Grant itemization coverage scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.