Our Family in Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731707036
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Camas, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3609033648
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,100
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $102,185
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jilma Menses (President of the Board)
- Lara Zizic (Vice President of the Board)
People named in this filing
- Jilma Menses (President of the Board)
- Lara Zizic (Vice President of the Board)
- Jared Siegel (Treasurer of the Board)
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
Provides support to orphans and street children in Africa, including food, education, shelter, and medical supplies
What it reported doing in 2025
We received the donations in December 2025. Funds will be used to support up to 60 orphans and street children in Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including food, education, and shelter, and health expenses for them
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.