Center for African Health and Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863644353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9713319024
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $206,818
- Expenses
- $285,594
- Assets
- $35,744
- Liabilities
- $7,100
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mohamed Ali (Past President/Project Director)
- Abdifatah Shafat (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Mohamed Ali (Past President/Project Director): $47,555 total reported compensation
- Mohamed Irad (Treasurer): $45,215 total reported compensation
- Abdifatah Shafat (Executive Director): $23,540 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At the Center for African Health and Education, our mission is to empower and uplift African refugees and immigrant communities by tirelessly advocating for health equity through collaborative initiative, education, and compassionate care. We strive to create a nurturing environment where the most vulnerable individuals can thrive, fostering a healthier and more resilient future for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service Accomplishments in 2024 for Center of African Health and Education were as follows. 1. Community Health Education & Outreach: CAHE delivered workshops on cancer awareness, communicable disease, vaccination, pediatric dental health, and chronic disease self-management, reaching hundreds of community members with culturally appropriate education and resources. 2. Emergency Preparedness & Climate Adaptation: The center led training sessions on disaster readiness, environmental health risks, and climate adaptation, helping families and seniors build resilience to emergencies. 3. Navigation & Workforce Development: CAHE provide senior health referrals and service navigation, while investing in staff professional development - training community health workers and building capacity to deliver high-quality culturally responsive care.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $267K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.