Borana-taltalle Relief & Development Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822344062
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Lakeville, MN, USA
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,500
- Expenses
- $131,621
- Assets
- $6,877
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Jemal Hebano (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Dr Ibrahim Elemo (Managing Director)
- Dr Jemal Hebano (Board President)
- Dr Abdurahman Rone (Board Director and Emergency relief coordinator)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1 Advocate for expansion of quality and universal education to communities in hard to reach areas and marginalized communities. 2 Establish Centers of Excellence where children of remote pastoral communities and children of the poorest of the poor are sheltered and have access to basic human services. 3 Advocate for improved enrollment of girls in middle and high schools and beyond in pastoralist communities and other disadvantaged peoples in Ethiopia and Eastern African countries. 4 Promote Public Health awareness among Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in the US. 6 Produce and Disseminate Health Awareness materials and messages using various means of communications including online media community gatherings and social events. 6 Built and managing Boarding Facilities and provide services for boarding students in Ethiopia and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2025
Construction of a primary hospital in West Arsi zone to improves accessible to essential healthcare services to the underserved rural communities the downtrodden rural villages of the Shashamanne and Bishan Gurracha towns 10,000 square meter of land leased from the local government licenses to develop the land and build a primary hospital with provide health services to an estimated 50,000 people who lacked access to basic health services due to inaccessibility of services as a result of physical and economic barriers. Supporting Medical equipment to southern zones of Oromia
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 47.1%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -33.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 47.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.