Kenya Keys
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271907027
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Lake Oswego, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5038877033
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $819,690
- Expenses
- $930,566
- Assets
- $648,592
- Liabilities
- $3,358
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Mark Friess (Executive Dir.): $49,999 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kenya Keys provides educational sponsorship, support & resources to empower disadvantaged students in rural Kenya to improve their lives & communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The KK NGO Operation Program: Included in grants to our Kenyan NGO affiliate are expenses for 13 program staff salaries, capacity-building, rent, utilities, transportation, office equipment, phones & building maintenance etc.Volunteers - Kenya Keys had 58 volunteers in 2023 contributing 5001 hours of service. Thirty-six staff and students from Weber State University donated 3240 hours of service toward the design and building of the Community Education Center (CEC). A volunteer provided hours of consultation on the construction of the CEC. Two board members provided in-kind legal services, while other members managed a book drive for the library, made feminine hygiene kits for students, managed sponsor renewals, and shopped for and prepared student laptops for dissemination. Other volunteers traveled to Kenya to support staff efforts, evaluate programs, and help with student interviews. Additional hours were donated to write student bios, take and edit student photos/videos, process student letters to their sponsors, and recruit new sponsors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 77% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $842K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.