Grenadines Partnership Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271329191
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037717008
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $21,248
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richard Molton (President)
People named in this filing
- Wayne Smith (Member)
- Richard Molton (President)
- Hobbart Trotter (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Grenadines Partnership Fund Mission StatementThe Grenadines Partnership Fund (GPF) supports community initiatives that benefit the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in four primary areas: Basic Needs: clean water supplies, sustainable sanitation, and waste management systems; Education: primary and secondary education, youth health development and sports programs, and adult education; Economic Development: infrastructure and economic development initiatives that create self-sustaining economies; and Environmental Protection and Conservation: land, marine and cultural preservation projects and renewable energy efforts. With the assistance of community leaders in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the GPF identifies viable projects and then provides financial support through grants to locally based non-profit organizations.
What it reported doing in 2022
The Grenadines Partnership Fund (GPF) supports community initiatives that benefit the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in four primary areas: Basic Needs: clean water supplies, sustainable sanitation, and waste management systems; Education: primary and secondary education, youth health development and sports programs, and adult education; Economic Development: infrastructure and economic development initiatives that create self-sustaining economies; and Environmental Protection and Conservation: land, marine and cultural preservation projects and renewable energy efforts. With the assistance of community leaders in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the GPF identifies viable projects and then provides financial support through grants to locally based non-profit organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Limited
- 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 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.