Komaza

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800316100
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4155135787
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26
Expenses
$675
Assets
$295,505
Liabilities
$624,633

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TEVIS HOWARD (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • FELICITY BLAKEWAY (Director)
  • BARRETT HAZELTINE (Chairman)
  • TEVIS HOWARD (CEO)

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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Komaza's mission is to create sustainable economic opportunities for farmers living in africa's semi-arid regions. Working through village-based field staff, we partner with families and help them plant and maintain small-scale, income generating tree farms.

What it reported doing in 2021

Komaza's program provides tool and inputs, training, and maintenance support for some of the world's hardes to serve farmers by supporting the creation of small-scale tree farms in kenya's semi-arid regions. Our program is implemented with local field staff in two planting seasons: the long rains, beginning in march, and the short rains, beginning in september. During 2016 komaza partnered with almost 2,000 new farmers, planting over 400,000 trees as well as shorter-term crops.

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
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2,496.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 437.79; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.11; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -97.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $675 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.