Empowering Quechuas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824327105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lebanon, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6157880005
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,220
- Expenses
- $57,425
- Assets
- $33,005
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles L Nault (President)
- Miguel Saccsara (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Charles L Nault (President)
- Miguel Saccsara (Executive Director)
- Esther Underwood (Director/Marketing)
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
Empowering Quechuas aims to provide spiritual and technical training, in order to give the Quechua people of Peru a hand up out of physical and spiritual poverty. Our largest and most effective ministry consists of soccer camps now in 14 Quechuan villages. The soccer program has flourished and has become well know in Peru. We provide children with the opportunity to pursue a higher education and to train their soccer skills at a high level to open doors to playing professionally, while teaching them important moral values. Several of our students have now gone on to play or coach professional soccer while being a real asset to their Church and community.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 we continued the soccer programs in 14 different Quechuan Indian villages across Peru, serving over 550 children from age 8 to 18. This year for the first time, we held a conference for all of our coaches, many traveling by foot or by horseback for many hours to attend. It provided much needed contacts and fellowship among the coaches who shared general best practices as well as inspirational stories of their commitment to each of their villages and the many students they minister to. Several of our program participants joined professional soccer teams as players and coaches. We were also able to provide Christmas Gifts and school supplies to young children in the villages we support. This required pushing heavy carts for hours over mountain and jungle trails and in some cases included taking boats across rivers to reach deep jungle villages. We continue to also support our ministry to the deaf in Africa operated by Grace Campo.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 25.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.