Good Samaritan Mission of Uganda
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921781958
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Clearwater, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7273666732
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $347,965
- Expenses
- $342,363
- Assets
- $76,880
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Fr Frank Lubowa (President)
- Jack Moore (Vice President)
- Ellen Jones (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Fr Frank Lubowa (President)
- Jack Moore (Vice President)
- Brian Jones (Secretary/Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower families in rural Uganda in a Christ-centered way to build a brighter future for themselves and their children primarily through education and supplying basic human needs such as food, water, clothing, and medical care.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. There are currently 17 members on staff, including a cook, dormitory warden and security guard. These 17 staff members received their monthly salaries. 2. Four teachers attended the January 2025 Recess teacher training course and were fully funded. 3. The school is at full capacity with a cap of 500 children. All students receive two meals every day. 4. New grades K-7th textbooks were purchased. New school desks were also purchased. 5. Some funds were used for Sports day and educational field trips. 6. New sports items (soccer and volleyballs and nets) were purchased. 7. Other repairs and renovations were done-gutter repair, painting, broken desks, etc. 8. The medical camp treats over 700 people in the community on a monthly basis. School Projects Completed: 1. New classroom building (Montoya Hall) completed. The building is complete and in use. 2. Hydro-electric Power Installation completed. This has been a game changer! Now the students can study and are safe at night. 3. Six acres of land has been purchased for school gardening. Being able to grow local food will drastically bring down the cost of school meals. 4. New pit latrines have been moved further away from the new classroom block. These have been constructed and are now in use. 5. New Perimeter Wall has been constructed around the entire campus. 6. New Playground Equipment has been purchased and erected.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.4% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $339K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.