Haiti Deaf Academy
Legal name: Commissioned Believers Deaf Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201150550
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Walker, IA, Haiti
- Phone
- 4847848703
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Deaf/Hearing Impaired Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $300,127
- Expenses
- $354,723
- Assets
- $335,089
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOSH REAKTENWALT (TREASURER)
- MARGARET SPRATLIN (BOD CO-CHAIR TREASURER)
- CATHY JONES (BOD CO-CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to educate, encourage, and empower the deaf in Haiti. Our Story/Mission and Vision A Small Boy Writing on a Piece of Paper Why: THE NEED. See **IMPACT** for more about each program. OUR STORY The need for the Haiti Deaf Academy became clear during our work with a community of deaf adults in Leveque, Haiti, as they relocated to permanent housing after losing their homes in the. Early Intervention Hearing Screening Program See **IMPACT** for more about each program. OUR STORY.
What it reported doing in 2025
Served approximately 60 deaf students over the past five years Celebrated 25 graduates Employed and led 20 deaf staff members, strengthening Deaf leadership and economic opportunity Built four new classrooms staffed by four deaf teachers Welcomed five new students after relocation, reflecting continued community trust Expanded hearing testing services into the Cap-Hatienregion to identify and reach more deaf children Created Language Intensive Program for new students as they arrive without formal language. In October of 2024, gangs took over our campus and we were forced to relocate the students to a safer part of the country, where we have managed to resume classes and most of our programs. In 2025, the ministry continued operations in the new location.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $355K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.