Not I But We

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934170542
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Johns Creek, GA, USA
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Economic Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,237
Expenses
$31,073
Assets
$40,046
Liabilities
$35,385

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Juanita van Heerden (Board Member)
  • Olivia Hosey (Board Member)
  • Madison Barefield (Founder + 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Not I But We offers survivors of trafficking & GBV in South Africa the opportunity to rebuild their lives through dignified and meaningful work.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sewing Skills + Survivor Employment Program. In FY25, Not I But We Inc's nonprofit grantee operated a trauma-informed sewing and employment program for survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence. The grantee trained 8 new survivors in vocational sewing skills, with all participants placed in paid employment roles at Not I But We upon completion of training. In total, 9 survivor-artisans received healing-centered employment during the fiscal year, accumulating over 11,000 hours of dignified, stable work. The program provided 130+ hours of free therapy, promoted 2 survivors into leadership roles within the organization, and indirectly impacted 30+ family members through the economic and emotional stability created by survivors' employment. The program operates as a survivor-led, healing-centered workplace rooted in the belief that dignified employment is a pathway to long-term recovery and restoration.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 60

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -134.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 66.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -104.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • 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 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.