Awamaki
Legal name: Asociacion Civil Awamaki
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 981111049
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Vashon, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2066787881
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $448,288
- Expenses
- $428,428
- Assets
- $270,858
- Liabilities
- $1,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YOVANA CANDELA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY KENNEDY LEAVENS (SECRETARY): $40,000 total reported compensation
- YOVANA CANDELA (PRESIDENT): $27,667 total reported compensation
- MERCEDES DURAND (DIR. OF ARTI): $24,900 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Awamaki is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to connecting Andean artisan weavers with global markets through traditional textiles and community-based tourism. We collaborate with women artisans to support their efforts towards educational and financial independence.
What it reported doing in 2025
We work with indigenous quechua artisans in the andes of peru to teach them to run their own businesses so they can connect to markets, earn a living and provide for their families. Women in the rural andes have low education levels and high poverty levels. Most have never been to school. However, they are skilled artisans. We work with 9 women's artisan cooperatives to provide craft quality training, leadership training, business training and training in how to host tourists in their villages. We connect them to markets for their businesses, by selling their craftwork (weaving and knitting) at our fair trade store in peru, and by connecting them to tourists and volunteers who buy from them and support their businesses directly. Our earned revenue from this program comes from our sale of the artisan's products and from international volunteers and tourists who visit the artisans through our programs. Our expenses for this program include training costs, supplies and equipment, and the costs of selling and marketing the artisans' businesses. Expenses also include connecting the artisans to sustainable tourism and voluntourism markets, like weaving lessons and homestays. We work with 180 women in 11 cooperatives who are earning a living and improving their lives thanks to our program. Of those 11cooperatives, we have graduated two from our program as independent businesses so far.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $267.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
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: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 4.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $303K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.