Otem Collective Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844685544
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Phone
4073924324
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$131,874
Expenses
$130,184
Assets
$28,286
Liabilities
$2,823

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kristen Marks (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kristen Marks (Executive Director)
  • Jaimee Brown (Board Chair)
  • Jacob Land (Board Treasurer)

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

Otem Collective Inc. strengthens families and communities to care for vulnerable children. In East Africa, we work to combat family separation. We have family strengthening initiatives that work to holistically support and strengthen families so they can care for their children. We also provide technical support and coaching to orphanages and residential care organizations as they transition their models of care to family-based care and work to get children safely back into families.

What it reported doing in 2025

Family Strengthening: We support 190 families in Northern Uganda through holistic family strengthening programs that include weekly Parent Support Groups, savings groups, and an agriculture initiative. These programs help caregivers build stronger relationships and attachment with their children, earn income, learn effective parenting skills, and ultimately help to prevent family separation.

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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.9%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.9% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.