Fambul Tok International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271157765
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077752616
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- International Peace and Security
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,123,775
- Expenses
- $1,330,480
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating space for effective community led and owned reconciliation process leading to development and sustainable peace in post conflict countries and sharing these stories with the world.
What it reported doing in 2011
Fambul tok (krio for "family talk") facilitates post war community owned reconciliation, with long-term processes led by each community. The national and district fambul tok staff work with communities to create opportunities for confession, forgiveness, and ongoing reconciliation. Our biggest accomplishment has been to initiate reconciliation processes through reconciliation ceremonies. We have successfully initiated these ceremonies and follow up activities to sustain the reconciliation process in four war-torn districts in over 120 communities in sierra leone. These reconciliation ceremonies have involved over 35,000 participants and hundreds of perpetrators offering confessions and seeking forgiveness and victims forgiving them.the reconciliation process continues with several kinds of activities: the creation of gender-balanced, volunteer community reconciliation committees to deal with local conflicts as they emerge; the launch, growth, and prosperity of community farms called "peace farms"; and youth soccer matches between villages and sections. Our staff works to train and support the local volunteers to lead these efforts in their own communities.we share the stories, processes, and lessons of this community reconciliation work with the world, to illuminate the universal values behind them, and to encourage people to examine their own lives and communities in the light of these values. In the service of these goals, we have maintained an active blog and other social media tools, published and distributed high quality printed reports/booklets, and produced audio and video pieces of the stories of the work. We also completed a book on fambul tok telling our story.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th 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; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2011
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.