Mara Vision Outreach Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455170388
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Addy, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2068904145
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $609,841
- Expenses
- $567,658
- Assets
- $908,117
- Liabilities
- $9,209
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- ANITA JEPSON (FOUNDER / CHAIR PERSON)
- BARRY JEPSON (DIRECTOR)
- TIMOTHY SAXTON (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mara vision outreach programs purpose is to help build churches, water wells, provide support in the form of health education to the maasai mara community. In addition, mara vision outreach programs intent is to provide maasai mara community members support in the form of health, education, and assistance to widows of the community and to provide support to orphans and widows in bangladesh.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 mara vision outreach program donated funds to the bangladesh adventist union mission. The donated funds provided for the operation of a "be well center" that provides health education for bangladesh people. In addition, the mara vision outreach program provides bangladesh students with scholarships, and helping schools by printing and purchasing books for their classrooms. In 2024 mara vision outreach program donated $170,000.00 to the bangladesh adventist union mission that was disbursed for these specific purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 6.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $554K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.