Panhari Trust Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814497150
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Clarksburg, MD, USA
Phone
4434105259
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$311,361
Expenses
$301,927
Assets
$23,169
Liabilities
$10,872

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • DONALD M BODZO (CO-FOUNDER): $85,968 total reported compensation
  • PHIL MLANDA (CO-FOUNDER): $43,003 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Panhari is a pan-african youth-empowerment organization that equips young people with the skills, tools, relationships, and opportunities they need to reach their full potential and help shape solutions to africa's most pressing challenges. Panhari works with young people from more than fifteen african countries across four areas: transformative leadership and governance; sustainable agrifood systems; responsible artificial intelligence and digital transformation; and climate solutions.

What it reported doing in 2025

For youth, by youth movement. In 2025, panhari designed, launched, and delivered the for youth, by youth movement, a youth-led leadership and community-impact program, in partnership with the talloires network of engaged universities at tufts university. The mastercard foundation is a partner in the broader movement. Panhari recruited and onboarded the movement's inaugural cohort of young leaders drawn from across africa and its global network, and paired participants with community and university collaborators. During the year, panhari delivered virtual working groups in youth participatory action research and in responsible artificial intelligence, one-on-one coaching and mentorship, wellness and safeguarding support, and a global webinar series on conscious leadership. Through community learning and impact projects, participants co-created solutions to real social problems in their own communities. Panhari also built and operated an ai-enhanced tracking, coaching, and evaluation system to support delivery, documentation, and learning across the movement.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $257K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.