EarthEnable
Legal name: Earthenable Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465540643
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nyamata, MA, Rwanda
- Phone
- +250 7875 75405
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,545,076
- Expenses
- $4,293,538
- Assets
- $17,954,444
- Liabilities
- $46,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GAYATRI DATAR (CEO AND CO-FOUNDER)
- JULIE MCBRIDE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GAYATRI DATAR (CEO AND CO-FOUNDER): $103,672 total reported compensation
- ROSE GOLDRICK (CTO): $102,327 total reported compensation
- MUTHONI KARIMI (COO): $95,281 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
EarthEnable's mission is to revolutionize the rural housing industry through our innovative, affordable and sustainable products to create healthier and safer homes for thriving communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, earthenable continued delivering sustainable and affordable housing solutions across east africa, directly improving living conditions for 38,381 people through earthen floors, plasters, and other healthy building materials. The organization expanded implementation of its proprietary earthen floor technology, which is 70% more affordable and emitting 96% less carbon than concrete. Earthenable supported the completion and advancement of thousands of housing solutions as part of its broader impact of over 35,000 projects to date. The organization also trained local masons using its established curriculum that enables builders to earn 23 times the median local income, strengthening livelihoods and community capacity. Operating primarily from nyamata, rwanda and active in rwanda, kenya, and uganda, earthenable's work continues to reduce carbon emissions, improve home quality, and contribute to healthier, safer living environments across the region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $61,439.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 90.4% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $109K reported
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.