Foundation for Peace
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550810709
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 9739881484
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,150,846
- Expenses
- $1,050,846
- Assets
- $1,102,544
- Liabilities
- $465,692
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENNETH CULVER (PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DI)
People named in this filing
- KENNETH CULVER (PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DI)
- WENDY PATCHIN (CHAIRMAN AND TREASURER)
- FRANK SPERANZA (CO-CHAIRMAN)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation for peace is a 501(c)(3) not-for profit organization dedicated to education in the united states and to working hand in hand with people in materially impoverished areas of the dominican republic, haiti, and kenya to provide educational support, healthcare access, economic opportunity and hope. We work together as long-term partners in solidarity to enable personal success and community achievement. We believe this will result in sustainable and successful initiatives that relieve the effects of poverty, encourage personal growth, and overcome injustice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mission trip programs: we had 18 trips in 2025, 17 to the dominican republic (dr) and one to kenya. There were 304 team members total. The team from college hill and stewartsville presbyterian churches came back to the finish the church in kilombo. Other church teams started construction on a medical clinic in el batey. The local health department will outfit and provide staff when complete. The housing construction project continued there with ffp teams helping to provide funds and labor to assist local families.ffp medical teams in the dr provided medical care for people living in underserved communities. We partnered with local physicians and the national public health department to ensure the best quality care for patients and an experience of joint learning for the teams. We served thousands of patients across many communities. Consultations and medicines were provided free of charge without regard to race, gender, religious affiliation, or nationality.in kenya, the ffp team worked hand in hand with the living word church and local community members in mathare north, nairobi. Around 50 community members joined out team to fill buckets with sand, water and gravel, pass them across the street, through the doorway, and onto the new property. To build the first floor of the junior high school of tumaini school. The ffp team also presented a bible school lesson for 400 children from the tumaini (means hope in swahili) school. The team partnered with a local medical organization (mema) to provide medical care and medicines to over 1,200 people in 3 days.in haiti, we continued to serve the people living in the "handicapped village" (vilaj casimir) with distribution of food, monthly supply of water, and school tuition support. The men nan men professional school changed locations and is thriving as it continues to offer programs in sewing, tiling, computers, cooking, plumbing, english and more. A graduation for 102 students was held and was a milestone event for the community. Ffp continues to facilitate access to quality education, salary support for the director, providing security, housing for teachers, online education, and other support for both men nan men and universite nexus d'haiti.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.2%; rating input score 94; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 8.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $974K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.