Emit USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841271745
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7196480674
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $947,273
- Expenses
- $941,541
- Assets
- $188,223
- Liabilities
- $135,443
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pastor Kobus Grobler (Global CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Pastor Kobus Grobler (Global CEO): $64,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
EMIT provides wholistic development of influential leaders to increase leadership effectiveness to transform every segment of society.EMIT USA, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) leadership training organization dedicated to training leaders to transform their nations. The mission of the organization is to provide wholistic development of influential leaders to increase their leadership effectiveness in every segment of society. On individual level, EMIT develops spiritual, leadership and professional skills as needed. On societal level, EMIT targets all significant pillars of the community. The organizational model is a relevant, cost-effectivee, and flexible way of empowering leaders to be outstanding transformational agents of change.
What it reported doing in 2025
Leadership training of African leaders to transform their communities on every level of society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.9%; rating input score 96; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $716K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.