American Friends of Bean Voyage

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833945930
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Phone
8574984375
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$667,820
Expenses
$583,172
Assets
$251,817
Liabilities
$25,000

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Sunghee Tark (Board of Directors): $40,235 total reported compensation
  • Abhinav Khanal (Board of Directors): $34,350 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

American Friends of Bean Voyage provides training and market access support to smallholder women coffee producers in Latin America, supporting them to gain tools, knowledge and network to lead thriving coffee businesses and their communities towards a sustainable future.

What it reported doing in 2025

Farmer School: A 12-month rural incubator program that equips smallholder women coffee farmers with training, peer support, and seed capital to establish resilient farm businesses and break out of the vicious cycle of food insecurity and poverty. Producers enrolled into the program: 343 women coffee producers; Countries: 4 (Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras); Seed Funds disbursed: $79,004.16.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 88% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 57
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: $29.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Limited
    • May suspend future funding: Limited
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Limited
    • Requires grant agreements: Limited
    • May require repayment: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 30.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $555K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 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
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.