Friends of Cicrin

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
275044169
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Phone
5708472120
Rating
33
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,309
Expenses
$6,047
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tami Radecke (President)
  • Dana Trout (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Tami Radecke (President)
  • Dana Trout (Vice President)
  • Kristin Einsel (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As stated in the organization's Articles of Incorporation, Friends of CICRIN is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes; namely, the health, education and daily needs of the children and youth living and/or studying at CICRIN, the Centro Infantil Cristiano Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan Christian Children's Center) and its school; improvements to CICRIN's campus and properties; and the daily operations of CICRIN.

What it reported doing in 2024

On January 16, 2024 (during CICRIN's winter break), the Nicaraguan government suddenly and without warning cancelled the legal status of CICRIN, confiscated its campus and all buildings, seized all of its fixed and moveable assets, fired the staff, and expelled the director and her family from their on-campus apartment. CICRIN became one of more than 5,500 (sic) NGOs that the Ortega-Murillo regime has cancelled. Despite the fact that the government was responsible for closing CICRIN, they required the organization to pay severance pay to all the employees, under penalty of imprisonment of the director if CICRIN failed to comply. Friends of CICRIN was able to assist with the cost of severance pay. Friends of CICRIN liquidated its accounts and wired the funds to CICRIN to help cover the cost of the severance pay.

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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 82
  • Sustainability: 10
  • Growth: 0

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: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -161.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -73.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -32.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -46.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th 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 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.