Friends of Bulungula Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822563578
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Olympia, WA, USA
Phone
3608670117
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Reported finances

Revenue
$100,329
Expenses
$88,630
Assets
$40,641
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Aprile Age (Director; President)

People named in this filing

  • Aprile Age (Director; President)
  • Karen Kievit (Director; Secretary)
  • Nokukhanya Ntuli (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To award grants to organizations that serve rural communities, with a particular focus on South Africa and the Mbhashe municipality.

What it reported doing in 2024

Grants of $50,000 awarded to Bulungula Incubator, a South African Non-Profit Association with legal personality. The grant is used to fund the Bulungula Incubator's projects, initiatives and programs which promote charitable, educational and health initiatives and programs that relieve poverty and promote education, clean water, career development, and better nutrition for children and adults living in the rural South African municipality of Mbhashe. A Grants from Friends of Bulungula of $10,000 awarded to Ukhanyo Foundation, a Non-Profit Organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. Ukhanyo Foundation was founded with the dream of a future in which South African youth in townships can pursue their ambitions, confidently seek to better their lives, and break the cycle of poverty. A grant of $21,903 was awarded to South African non-profit FUEL (Feed. Educate. Uplift. Love.) whose mission is to work within South Africa's Department of Education to co-create and implement the Monitoring, Reporting and Response (MRR) methodology, to support and hold schools accountable in providing nutritious meals on time to over 9 million students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 11.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 69.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.