Mpambara Cox Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262744742
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Derwood, MD, USA
Phone
2027663458
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Cultural Exchange

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,001
Expenses
$45,771
Assets
$12,203
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Anita Mpambara Cox (President)
  • Jim Rotholz (Board Member and Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Anita Mpambara Cox (President)
  • Jim Rotholz (Board Member and Vice President)
  • Dan O'Brien (Board Member)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Mpambara Cox Foundation (MCF) creates community based partnerships between the U.S. and Africa for the purpose of cross-cultural communication aimed at advancing global understanding and improving literacy in African rural schools. Programs are designed to foster and deliver sustainable development solutions to alleviate poverty in Africa through education. In the U.S., the foundation aims to enhance education in schools and colleges to create global awareness through authentic engagement with Africa running partnership programs such as pen-paling and hosting Peace Corps Volunteers in Uganda.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Global Fellow Program (GFP) provides secondary school scholarships to students who have been beneficiaries of our primary school meal programs. Having supported these students through primary education (7 years) with daily nutritious meals, the program addresses the critical transition point where many rural students are unable to continue their education because of cost and family economic pressures that require them to contribute to household income. Each year the foundation adds children to the GFP. Selected Fellows receive school fees, educational materials, uniforms, attend boarding school, and ongoing academic support, tutoring and an annual field trip to visit other parts of the country.

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.