Build Tanzanian Family Futures Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452938830
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Ridgefield, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034703286
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,314
- Expenses
- $76,892
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Barbara Poole (President)
People named in this filing
- Barbara Poole (President)
- Norman Weinstein (Treasurer)
- Patrick Bower (Director)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Build Tanzanian Family Futures (BTFF) is a non-profit corporation registered in the United States. It was founded to reduce existing illiteracy, poverty and early mortality through education, and health outreach for families, parents, and young children in Northern Tanzania.BTTFs mission is first and foremost to provide education in one of the poorest countries in the World. It is our belief that only through education will the people of Northern Tanzania rise above their current circumstance.In 2015, we began the Serengeti Scholars, a project of BTFF. BTFF sponsors 50 students in 13 different government schools, whose families cannot afford a government school education. The students, or Scholars, must demonstrate academic excellence to be selected for the project. It is BTFF's goal to make this first group of 50 families be self sufficient, then another group of 50 families will be selected for BTFF to sponsor. The 50 Scholars, 39 of which are women, and all are learning STEM (Scienc
What it reported doing in 2018
2018 was a period of winding down with no new progress to report. Copied from 2017:-We sponsored 50 secondary school students in S.T.E.M education , with a 100% continuation rate into 2017.-Of the 50 students, 39 are young women studying Science.-We brought online learning to the 50 students through a collaboration with BrainPop.com and AirTel TZ-85% of Serengeti Scholars finished 2016 with a 3.0 or higher average, even though their lives are incredibly difficult.-Our rising high school students attended computer training and learned the full Microsoft Suite. 50% of the students have been trained to date.-18 out of 19 rising High School students passed the Form Four National Examinations with DIstinction.-We provided 15,000 meals to the poorest families in the Food for Families Program-Single parents of Serengeti Scholars received start-up grants, business training, and are now running profitable businesses, enabling them to pay for their most basic of needs.-In partnership with Aunt Marys Bookshelf, a US based charity, a lending library of fiction books has given the students their first time reading for enjoyment. It has been transforming their lives.-We sponsored routine and emergency healthcare, as well as crisis aid in abandonment and abuse situations.-We increased our donor base through presentations in conjunction with Rotary.-Weve doubled our social media following.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 revenue 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 40%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 40% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2013 to 2018
- 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 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.