Friends of Kmma-caiths

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822701812
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Stillwater, MN, USA
Phone
7632187711
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Primary, Elementary Schools

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,814
Expenses
$52,278
Assets
$75,899
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Michael J McNulty (Chair, Board of Directors)
  • Kieran McNulty (Treasurer, Board of Directors)
  • Kathleen Maxbauer-McNulty (Secretary, Board of Directors)

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

The organization is exclusively for charitable, scientific, educational, and humanitarian purposes. More specifically, its aim is to improve the lives, livelihood, health, education, and future prospects of the people on Rusinga Island, Kenya, by partnering with the Community-Based Organization CENTER FOR ADVOCACY AND INTERVENTIONS ON TALENT, HEALTHCARE AND SANITATION (CAITHS) and its educational arm, the KATHY AND MIKE MCNULTY ACADEMY (KMMA).

What it reported doing in 2024

Our program service provides funding to a Kenyan community-based organization (CAITHS) that operates a school (KMMA) for orphaned and vulnerable children on Rusinga Island, Kenya. This program service Our Our program service provides funding to a Kenyan community-based organization (CAITHS) that operates a school (KMMA) for orphaned and vulnerable children on Rusinga Island, Kenya. This program service supports school operations, maintenance, and programming. In 2024, the school employed 17 Kenyan staff and faculty, and it served ~160 students from ages 3-10 yrs. old. [note: last year's return had a typo indicating approximately "1605" students. It should have said 160 students.] All students receive a free education, school supplies, food, school uniforms, and use of school facilities and equipment, including a medical clinic. Staff and teachers are provided with the supplies, equipment, and facilities to operate the school and clinic and educate 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 comfortably covers expenses. 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: 69
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.4%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 1

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: 28.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.4% of revenue deployed · 0.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $275 in reported program spending
  • 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: 3 filing years from 2022 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 1/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.