Kwanzaa365 Connect
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934781983
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Savannah, GA, USA
- Phone
- 9196384055
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,440
- Expenses
- $11,455
- Assets
- $985
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Imani Poole (President/Director)
- Mary Williams-Stover (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Imani Poole (President/Director)
- Melissa Williams (Treasurer)
- Esther Green (Board member)
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
Kwanzaa 365 connections, primary exempt purposes to empower us and strengthen communities through year-round, cultural arts, wellness, and educational program programming. The organization provides accessible rhythm and movement classes, African dance instruction, wellness workshops, community performances, youth, mentorship, and cultural events that promote physical wellness, emotional resilience, cultural identity, self expression, and community connection. Program serve children, families, and community members in the Savannah area with a focus on increasing access to culturally relevant arts and wellness experiences. Through classes, workshops performances and community partnerships Kwanzaa 365 connection advances, charitable and educational purposes by promoting health, cultural awareness, used development and collective community well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Collective Performance and Mentor Group: Intergenerational performance ensemble that mentors youth performers. Adult performers serve as mentors, cultural bearers and co-creators, while youth gain hands on experiences in dance, music, performance arts and leadership skills. The program fosters creativity and cultural pride while also serving as an extended village for parents. 5 youth ages 5-11 and 6 adults participated. The Collective indirectly impacts additional youth and community members through the culturally rooted and engaging community performances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 160.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 53.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -151.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.3% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.