Mission Starfish Haiti
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463038845
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Davenport, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5635087698
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,960
- Expenses
- $107,251
- Assets
- $335,059
- Liabilities
- $11,829
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Silentor Esthil-Henderson (Director): $36,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary mission is to support a school in Gonaives, Haiti. We pay teachers, security staff and kitchen staff and supply necessary materials for classes, hot meals every day and school uniforms. We have incrementally expanded our classes to include K1-K3, Elementary and High School (through grade 12). We have a nursing program for student and family health care and are using the school for some adult and community improvement classes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operations: Paying the staff (teachers, kitchen and security). We supply a hot meal everyday to students and try to make sufficient quantities to feed any neighbor who brings their own bowls. This is a critical effort in times of weather emergencies. We supply uniforms, study materials and other supplies for the students. We are finding used computers and other technical items for the students to learn repairs and understand those technologies. Our sewing program is in place for older girls and women to learn and use for small business efforts. We are teaching auto mechanics to men and older boys for self help. We have a nursing program to provide students with health care and this is open to the community for small fees. We have self help supplies for community housing improvement projects. We have a garden project to teach those skills and provide food for the school. We do pay our Directors salary and related expenses. Travel has been much lower due to COVID and political unrest. This category also includes administrative expenses such as wire transfer and bank fees.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -49%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.