Ethioedir
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814205776
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063556121
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Local Benevolent Life Insurance Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $387,660
- Expenses
- $201,733
- Assets
- $1,471,153
- Liabilities
- $215,911
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mekonnen Tsegga (President)
- Binyam Tilahun (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Mekonnen Tsegga (President)
- Binyam Tilahun (Vice President)
- Guenet Assefa (Secretary)
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
The Organization's primary exempt purposes include: 1) providing financial assistance for funeral services or for transporting the body of a member of the Edir. 2) disseminating information to the members of the Edir of the death of a member, 3) coordinating and assigning the tasks associated with the death of a member, 4) comforting and consoling those who have lost loved once, and 5) encouraging members to be present in the mourning for consoling the surviving family members of the deceased member.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ethiopian Americans have an elaborate traditions associated with death and bereavement. As soon as the death news is announced, people start gathering at the deceased home, community center, or church facility to comfort the grieving family. Following this tradition, the ETHIOEDIR served several dinners (food and drinks) for the deceased families and friends.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.29; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -33.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.