Entrepreneurs Across Borders

Legal name: Entrepreneurs Across Borders Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833130254
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Little Falls, NY, US
Phone
+1 (315) 520-8748
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$284,635
Expenses
$458,901
Assets
$548,765
Liabilities
$315,429

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRIS COCHRAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MARTIN BABINEC (CHAIRMAN & SECRETARY)
  • JIM KENNEFICK (DIRECTOR)
  • MELISSA PEGUS (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We help people with talent, but without access, turn their skills into businesses — by building communities where entrepreneurs lift each other.

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule oentrepreneurs across borders, inc. (the organization) is a start-up not-for-profit corporation incorporated in january 2019. The organization serves to identify, curate and connect emerging entrepreneurs in developing countries with resources they need to create jobs, sustainable livelihood and equitable growth. The organization continued to build on the entrepreneurs across borders connect platform adding an artificial intelligence component called the ideation hub. This addition will continue to help us identify, curate, and connect entrepreneurs in jamaica with the resources they need to be successful. Additionally the organization hosted a first of its kind entrepreneurial summer camp for high school students. This was hosted in partnership with bizworld inc. Over the course of two days 28 students from various socio-economic and geographic backgrounds participated in fun learning exercises using a modern approach to entrepreneurship training that includes pitching for funding, rounds of funding, up rounds, down rounds, and company valuation. Lastly we hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the zion entrepreneurial village we will be building in cooperation with food for the poor and upmobility foundation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -61.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -25.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $315K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $158K reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.