Lalafofofo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473989846
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Atherton, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502183027
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,003
- Expenses
- $139,032
- Assets
- $97,782
- Liabilities
- $53,607
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA VAUGHAN (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- LAURA VAUGHAN (President & CEO)
- HOLLY SUTTON (LEGAL ADVISOR)
- BETH DAVIS (Chairman)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Tanzania programs details: School Meals Program $20,390; Girls Scholarship Program/Child Marriage Prevention $44,356; Women's Employment Program $21,548; WASH/Bathroom Project $25,215 (INCLUDING A LAND CRUISER VEHICLE $13,692); ADMINISTRATION $15,823; TZ GOVERNMENT FEES $10,480.Lalafofofos service projects in rural Kilimanjaro are balanced between aid and sustainability. Meeting childrens life-sustaining needs is the first priority. Our aid programs address serious hunger and malnutrition in schools, which affect childrens ability to grow, think and learn. We are currently helping to feed breakfast and lunch to more than 1,000 students during the school year. At the same time, promoting long-term independence is equally important. From building essential school facilities (bathrooms, kitchens, water tanks), to planting vegetable gardens and distributing solar lanterns so that children can do their homework at night, Lalafofofos sustainable projects have been carefully selected for
What it reported doing in 2024
Lalafofofo helps improve local people's lives in tanzania, including building water pipes, providing lunch and support tuition to local children, etc.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 86.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.