Mali Kalanso
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872053618
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4153778515
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,904
- Expenses
- $105,793
- Assets
- $34,284
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHLEEN CHRIST (PRESIDENT / CEO)
People named in this filing
- KERRY KING (TREASURER / CFO)
- KATHLEEN CHRIST (PRESIDENT / CEO)
- STEVEN W HATFIELD (SECRETARY)
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
Mali kalanso is a non-profit organization established to provide educational opportunity to children, especially girls, in rural mali, west africa. We provide educational opportunity to students pre-k through high school and beyond, including college, professional and technical schools. We are a volunteer run organization with all donations going directly to funding programming.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided funds for new equipment, repairs and maintenance to school facilities; operational support of school including subsidies for teachers, tutors and program direction; vision, hearing and dental exams and treatment; meals and school supplies for students pre-k through 12; educational fees, housing, transport and school supplies for college, professional and technical school students; solar powered water tower to provide clean drinking water.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th 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 · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.