Awassa Childrens Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364456348
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125052888
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,083
- Expenses
- $48,858
- Assets
- $2,464
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cara M Hock (President)
- Dr Baljinder Bathla (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Cara M Hock (President)
- Kshiti Jikar (Treasurer)
- Stella Heyliger (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides contributions and resources to a orphanage and childrens educational center in Awassa Ethiopia, for support of 98 orphans (food, shelter and vocational training).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.1%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.1% of revenue deployed · 1.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $858 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.