Burundi Friends International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262545273
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7604739640
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $22,016
- Assets
- $43,400
- Liabilities
- $2,097
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thierry Yungenge (President)
People named in this filing
- Barbara Kelly (Treasurer)
- Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery (Director)
- Thierry Yungenge (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
BFI's mission is to fight poverty by sustaining communities through partnerships in education and economic empowerment.
What it reported doing in 2024
BFI sponsored programs in Burundi were suspended in 2023 because of changes in in-country personnel. In early 2024, the Board of Directors elected to begin the process of dissolving the organization. In the 2024-25 fiscal year, no income was received. Certain operating expenses, such as; insurance and software subscriptions, were actively reduced as plans for termination were made. BFI is projecting to be closed on or around December 31, 2025.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.97; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.