Project to Decolonize Coffee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881471614
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 9515257056
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Agricultural Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,104
- Expenses
- $58,504
- Assets
- $2,600
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Luis Mojica Perez (CEO & FOUNDER)
People named in this filing
- Luis Mojica Perez (CEO & FOUNDER)
- Lucia Vives Gomez (COO & Member 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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project to Decolonize Coffee's mission is to educate and support low-income coffee farmers in Colombia and Africa. We aim to support low income people develop their farm business and obtain financial independence. Project to Decolonize Coffee will supply coffee growers with the materials and expertise they need to improve their harvest and to roast their beans at origin. We will offer in person training events, educational conferences, and educational kits to support low-income farmers. Project to Decolonize Coffee will also partner with influencers, celebrities, creatives, farmers, innovators, artisans, activists and charitable organizations to educate the public and increase awareness for low-income farmers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Proyecto B - El Diamante: Supported seven first-time grower families in El Diamante through their first specialty harvest, financing a despulpadora (pulping) house and drying marquesina, with farm assessments and in-field advisory sessions. Culminated in the community's first-ever coffee launch.
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 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 57
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.6%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 30.4%; rating input score 30
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 2.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.6% of revenue deployed · 30.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.