Godparents for Tanzania
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562352150
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9103982762
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,058
- Expenses
- $156,673
- Assets
- $21,999
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Madeline Morgan (President)
- Jessica Utt (Vice President)
- Kristin Westermann (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Madeline Morgan (President)
- Jessica Utt (Vice President)
- Niane Szalwinski (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Godparents for Tanzania (G4TZ) offers hope to young Tanzania by sending them to primary and secondary school, vocational training, and college. In 2025, G4TZ provided scholarships to 48 primary, secondary, vocational, and college students in Tanzania. G4TZ also provided grants to five education projects in 2025.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Godparents for Tanzania provided grants totaling $66,813 to 5 education projects in Tanzania. The grants were awarded to 1) Hai Institute of Technology, a vocational training center; 2) Door of Hope Maasai Ministry, a residential home for Maasai girls from rural villages who attend primary school in an urban setting; 3) a preschool owned and operated by Kisereny Lutheran Parish; 4) Trinity Academy, an English medium secondary school; and 5) Tanzania Women Research Foundation, a Moshi-based NGO that provides school fees for orphans and vulnerable children. Project funds are administered by Tanzanian volunteers, who also monitor project progress. American staff and volunteers travel to Tanzania annually to visit project sites and meet with local project coordinators.
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. 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.2%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 13
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: -14.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.2% of revenue deployed · 13.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K 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: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 15/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.