Communities Without Borders a Nonprofit Organization

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200842080
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2021
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Newton, MA, USA
Phone
6172336071
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$98,402
Expenses
$83,528
Assets
$196,748
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PETER SMITH (PRESIDENT)
  • LOUIS LICHT (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)

People named in this filing

  • PETER SMITH (PRESIDENT)
  • LOUIS LICHT (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
  • ROBIN KUTNER (CLERK)

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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cwb enables the education, health, and welfare of orphans and other vulnerable children (ovc's) in zambia. It provides scholarships to ovc's for fees, books, uniforms, and shoes required to continue education through high school. It assists community schools lacking government support by funding teacher training, paying or supplementing teacher salaries, and providing books, library facilities, computers, and desks. It also funds capital projects, such as the electrification and the improvement of sanitary facilities in community schools.

What it reported doing in 2021

Human services-multipurpose: enabling the primary and secondary higher education of orphans and other vulnerable children (ovc's) in townships in zambia working through local ngos and cbos. Promoting relationships with communities in less developed countries. Sponsoring the education of selected pre-school teachers. Tutoring secondary students before exams and delivering medicines. Sponsoring selected supplementary feeding programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94

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: 15.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.36; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2021
  • 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.

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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.