Orphans Africa

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261494192
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
Location
Fox Island, WA, USA
Phone
2532523544
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$162,204
Expenses
$135,272
Assets
$20,416
Liabilities
$380,355

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Carl Gann (President)
  • Vickie Lackman (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Carl Gann (President)
  • Michele Torrey (Secretary)
  • Vickie Lackman (Vice-President)

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

Educating orphans in Tanzania, East Africa

What it reported doing in 2025

Orphan Support Project: $9426.89; Marilynn Education Center: $ 607.10; Chimbuya Nursery School: $ 852.47; Mbozi Nursery School $ 419.80; TZ Programs Operations Expenses $1007.28; All support is in the form of tuition, books, supplies, desks, uniforms, meals, and play equipment. The operations expenses are the Vodacom fees required to wire the funds.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 18.63; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $104K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.