Haiti Outreach Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391671687
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Golden Valley, MN, USA
Phone
6129291122
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$628,506
Expenses
$742,118
Assets
$120,915
Liabilities
$26,723

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CEALLAIGH K ANDERSON SMART (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CEALLAIGH K ANDERSON SMART (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,731 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See schedule o.haiti outreach envisions a future where all haitians are empowered with teh capabilities to manager their lives & to work with others to build brighter future for themselves, their families, & all haitians have ready access to safe, sustainable, community-managed water & sanitation facilities, & practice sound hygiene practices. Through 25 years of community management & management training, haiti outreach has empowered haitians with the skills and attitudes to sustainability manage community-initiated water & sanitation resources, which are financially supported by the users through small but meaningful fees.

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule o.haiti outreach leadership program - the key to our work in haiti is organizing and providing coaching for communities to take on the responsibility of providing and particularly maintaining potable water systems for their citizens. We have perfected a leadership program that moves leaders and citizens from being victims of their circumstances to taking responsbility for this lack in their communities and motivating them with providing training and coaching to do so. Our goal is sustainable development of these community water systems by the haitian people, be they rural wells or town water systems, so that the leaders in haiti will have the people and systems in place to do so, including the necessary financial ability to maintain them indefinitely. That is what this leadership program provides. We are continuously providing this leadership in the 4 communes of cavaillon, terre neuve, pignon and ferrier in haiti throughout 2024. These communes have a combined population of around 87,000 people. We prepared to conduct a combination leadership program and water system operator training in january of 2025 for 17 people from cavaillon.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.7%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -18.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.7% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $501K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
  • 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 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.