Pilgrim Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810661745
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067060350
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $877,635
- Expenses
- $1,314,015
- Assets
- $525,799
- Liabilities
- $7,616
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dorothy Echodu (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Dorothy Echodu (CEO): $41,294 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pilgrim Africa's mission is to challenge despair, love boldly, and help African people create a future of sustainable prosperity and health. We give ourselves in service to others regardless of economic, religious, or social standing, working to empower and love others to the glory of God.
What it reported doing in 2024
Neglected Tropical Diseases in High Risk Populations NTD HRP: In collaboration with MOH Vector borne diseases and neglected tropical diseases division VBNTD, held two international conferences bringing together disease experts and African national NTD managers to help create a guide to high risk population assessment, conducted a study in 5 populations at high risk of either onchocerciasis or trachoma in Uganda to discover both barriers and access points for delivery, held workshops with members of HRPs and MOH VBNTD to brainstorm community approaches to NTD treatment and prevention delivery, and formulated costed plans for novel intervention delivery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 62% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $86.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 20th 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -49.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.