Amazwi Global
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854202622
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3105646054
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,187,637
- Expenses
- $725,120
- Assets
- $1,282,542
- Liabilities
- $9,128
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC OLANDER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC OLANDER (PRESIDENT): $113,901 total reported compensation
- CHRISTIAN GERAUD NEEMA BYAMUNGU (SECRETARY): $53,861 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Independent multimedia organization dedicated to exploring every aspect of china's engagement with africa.
What it reported doing in 2025
Amplifying iplc voices in the nickel mining discourse in indonesia - with almost 60% of the world's nickel reserves, indonesia is at the center of the global competition for critical minerals. While all that nickel will help usher in a new era of cleaner energy and transportation, out of sight, millions of people are bearing an enormous cost to make this transition possible. Nickel extraction is a violent process that exacts massive costs on the environment and the millions of people who live near the mines. While there is growing awareness of the ecological and health damage wrought by critical resource mining, key voices are too often missing from the discourse. Mining companies, the government, and even automakers have been very effective in shaping the narratives, particularly in the news media, around nickel mining in indonesia. Rarely, though, do the perspectives of people who live closest to the mines receive meaningful coverage. This initiative aims to change.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $74.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $580K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.