Congo Peace
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881555991
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Mercer Island, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4258917256
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $278,944
- Expenses
- $240,345
- Assets
- $96,533
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alexis Ruhumiriza (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- David Metz (Board Chair)
- Mark Phelps (Vice Chair)
- Thomas Merritt (Treasurer)
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
Congo Peace's mission is to break the chronic cycle of poverty, violence and tribal animosity in the Democratic Republic of Congo/South Kivu region by assisting all tribes equally. We provide initial emergency support, and teach vocational and entrepreneurial skills to foster economic opportunity and stability, guided by Christ's reconciling love.
What it reported doing in 2025
RECONCILIATION: a Congolese ministry staff of 9 from all 5 tribes worked with inhabitants, pastors and local leaders of 22 villages in the Minembwe region of South Kivu DRC. Poverty is a factor in the chronic cycle of violence and inter-tribal animosity. 24 economic empowerment co-ops were started with micro-loans (96 women, 40 youth). Sustainable vocational training was taught to 65 young adults in a multi-tribal residential school (see below). Our Congolese grantee, New Hope Reconciliation ASBL, led reconciliation work-shops and seminars for 280 villagers, pastors, community leaders and church worship services on topics from emotional healing, forgiveness and community resilience. Weekly radio broadcasts reached another 57,000 with similar topics as well as messages about the community center constructed and the rebuilt multi-tribal church. Three inter-tribal soccer "peace" tournaments were also organized. 7,000 pounds of crops were planted and harvested in multi-tribal agricultural cooperatives.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $67.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 13.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 21; 21st 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $840 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.