Friends of the Forum for African Women Educationalists Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273139616
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2013
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2013
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2123307654
Rating
53
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,521
Expenses
$12,690
Assets
$864
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TED GREGORY (PRESIDENT)
  • JANET LUHRS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • TED GREGORY (PRESIDENT)
  • TED GREGORY (TREASURER)
  • JANET LUHRS (EXECUTIVE 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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote the education of girls and women in africa by supporting policy efforts to increase access to education and improve retention and performance of students in primary, secondary and post-secondary education in africa.

What it reported doing in 2013

The organization is in the process of establishing its various states registration compliance, membership recruitment and organizational and board member development. It is creating programs to increase awarness about itself and its mission via fund raising activities. It provided a grant for scholarship to fawe, its affiliated organization

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - 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: 34
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
  • Program expense ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 32

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -63.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -94.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 31.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.