Kissidugu Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274362942
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Crested Butte, CO, USA
Phone
9705968385
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Dance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,535
Expenses
$65,474
Assets
$195,709
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Fara Tolno (President and Executive Director)
  • Angela Carroll (Vice President, Director of Colorado Programs and Events)

People named in this filing

  • Fara Tolno (President and Executive Director)
  • Angela Carroll (Vice President, Director of Colorado Programs and Events)
  • Anissa Lucero (Secretary and Breadfruit Project 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization promotes awareness and appreciation of Guinean arts, music, dance, and culture through educational and cultural programs in the United States and abroad. The organization also provides charitable support to individuals in Guinea through food assistance, medical and rent stipends, and community development initiatives, including support for breadfruit farming projects designed to generate sustainable income and improve economic stability within local communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Presented educational and cultural programs promoting Guinean dance, music, and cultural traditions through performances, instruction, and community engagement activities. These activities and programs serve as a way to raise money to aid in the organization's mission to support a community breadfruit farming initiative designed to promote sustainable agriculture and generate economic opportunities through the cultivation and sale of breadfruit products.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.99; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $49K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.