Hawega Foundation
Legal name: Hawega Foundation Co Linda Azzara
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872476202
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Centerport, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6313751684
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,632
- Expenses
- $31,465
- Assets
- $70,749
- Liabilities
- $275
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brittany Azzara (President)
People named in this filing
- Brittany Azzara (President)
- Brian Azzara (Secretary/Treas)
- Sainga Sedoyeka (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Hawega Foundation is dedicated to putting an end to FGM within the Datooga tribe by empowering girls through education and community support.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 Hawega Foundation sponsored the education of 25 girls from the Datooga Tribe in Tanzania and prevented them from undergoing FGM.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.6%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 24.6%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 57.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 56.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 9.6% of revenue deployed · 24.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.