Kuwasha USA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883628702
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
San Marcos, CA, USA
Phone
6046343159
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$325,764
Expenses
$200,522
Assets
$228,463
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEFF DYCK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • BRAD MILLER (PRESIDENT)
  • MATTHEW PETERS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JEFF DYCK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $71,531 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization seeks to meet the needs of marginalized people and ignite transformational change through christian education, healthcare, and community development.

What it reported doing in 2025

The programmatic goal of the organization is transformational change in southern uganda. Kuwasha USA provides charitable support through international grants to the kibaale community centre ("the centre") to operate its charitable programs. Since 1993, the centre has been transforming lives in and around the village of kibaale by providing healthcare, community development resources and a quality christian education to vulnerable members of the community. Education: the centre operates 3 schools that host over 1700 students in the centre schools daily. Students get uniforms, quality education and meals daily. On top of this, students and their families have access to a host of programs to help them be successful in their education. Healthcare: a community health centre in kibaale is run where over 26,000 people are treated annually, including a maternity section where on average a baby is delivered every day. Community development: a comprehensive agriculture program named thrive exists to support families at home to learn to grow crops that will provide a more balanced diet to our students and their families. In 2024, 360 families attended the thrive training program. Water sources are located and maintained in the community, making sure the community has access to vital clean water. To date, the organization has installed 25 bore holes in the rakai district to achieve this. The largest initiative in the community is coffee plantation. Currently there are 55,000 coffee plants, providing over 110 jobs monthly.

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 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 67
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.3%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Pass
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 64.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 73.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 75.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.3% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $178K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.