Engage Globally

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455310434
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Asheville, NC, USA
Phone
5404213188
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$154,071
Expenses
$133,781
Assets
$120,211
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Emily Bissenger (Director)
  • Heather Heckel (Director)
  • Jena Barjenbruch (Director)

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

We support community-led sustainable development with an emphasis on education, youth empowerment, gender equity, food security and environmental conservation, in collaboration with local community organizations and none villages in Northern Ghana.

What it reported doing in 2025

Engage Globally provides program support, capacity building, funding, and monitoring and evaluation for the education of 600 youth in rural Northern Ghana. We also support vocational training, food security, health education, women's agriculture, small business development, and employment for community members from nine traditional villages, reaching over 2000 people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 35%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.