Calestous Juma Legacy Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843475242
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cambridge, MA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$77,358
Expenses
$76,453
Assets
$9,977

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alison Field-Juma (President)
  • John O Mugabe (Vice President)
  • Angela P Christiana (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Alison Field-Juma (President)
  • Amanda K Bauer (Director)
  • Wesley Harris (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advancing economic transformation and sustainable development in the developing world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Capacity Building in Bunyala Subcounty Kenya. Continued community participation in ongoing needs assessment and development planning. Partnered with local organizations to continue providing technology and business skills training in Port Victoria with over 325 direct beneficiaries in the first three years. We expect to continue to support this program and serve at least 200 direct beneficiaries in 2026 and more in the years to follow.

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

- 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: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 1.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -50.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.