Light of Africa Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870698623
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Redding, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5305240371
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Public Utilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-67,255
- Expenses
- $513,353
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAM NELSON (President & CEO)
- PETE PETERS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SAM NELSON (President & CEO)
- EDDIE HASH (Chairman)
- PETE PETERS (Vice President)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing Christian messages from Goma, Africa to the Congo country.
What it reported doing in 2020
Ongoing radio programming of Christian topics, prevention of sexual violence, & health care topics in the DR Congo, Africa, plus providing Christian field coordinators delivering Christian messages, health care messages and trying to influence the Congolese mind set towards rape, war and related issues.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -863.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -37.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.