Creats International Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931487337
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Edison, NJ, USA
Phone
5612297519
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$170,948
Expenses
$180,947
Assets
$9,500
Liabilities
$9,999

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WILLIS OCHIENG PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • WILLIS OCHIENG PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • LEONARD OLUOCH (COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER)
  • SHARON ACHIENG (AGRICULTURE EXTENSION OFFICER)

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

To empower communities by dismantling the social, cultural, and economic barriers that hold marginalized communities back from thriving. We build the capacities of communities to find homegrown solutions to poverty, hunger, and climate change through regenerative agriculture, environmental conservation, entrepreneurship, clean water, and clean cooking technologies. We also link communities to resources such as agricultural inputs, finance, and markets for sustainable development.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth and community leadership for climate action was implemented to collect stories of the impacts of climate change in communities to humanize the climate crisis and inspire action from local to global levels. The project also included establishing community environmental forums to bring community members together to discuss their climate-related challenges and inspire a grassroots movement for climate action. Most importantly, the project trained 100 young people and women in the community as community youth climate ambassadors to spearhead the climate conversations, advocate for the rights of their communities, and bridge the gap with policymakers. This project has increased the number of young people and communities currently spearheading climate conversations at the local level by leveraging local resources to build resilience. It has also increased community awareness of climate change and its impacts on the social, cultural and economic fabrics of the society. This has empowered communities to take an active role in tackling climate change using their local resources while engaging their elected leaders to amplify their voices at the national and international level.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 66

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $120K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.