Bajalia Trading Company

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200188342
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2016
Forms available
Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2016
Location
Winter Park, FL, USA
Phone
4078523850
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Employment N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,300
Expenses
$1,829
Assets
$1,822
Liabilities
$36,376

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEBBIE FARAH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROSEMARY RALEY (SECRETARY)
  • KIM PATEAS (TREASURER)
  • DEBBIE FARAH (PRESIDENT)

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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Bajalia exists to alleviate poverty and empower low-income people in third world countries through trade, training, and other forms of business and community development.

What it reported doing in 2016

Public, society benefit - multipurpose and other: conducted church bazaars to market purchased handicrafts from native artisans. Community improvement, capacity building: overseas travel to india, working with ngos representing native artisans in over 15 countries. Performed consulting with artisans from these foreign countries doing training and business development via email, skype, and training. Focused on growing projects in afghanistan and added projects in turkey. Expanded work in india and haiti and added work in pakistan during 2015. Added business coaching and business training. During 2016, bajalia international group, llc donated rental space with fmv of $8,000 and $ 28,500 of donated services for staffing, marketing and professional fees.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 33.1%; rating input score 33
  • Program expense ratio: 59.7%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 44.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 19.96; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -40.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -54.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 33.1% of revenue deployed · 59.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2013 to 2016
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.