Publish4africa Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823061862
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Bloomington, MN, USA
Phone
9522223583
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religious Printing, Publishing
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$340,101
Expenses
$322,127
Assets
$31,325
Liabilities
$153,603

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIM KELLY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TIM KELLY (PRESIDENT): $10,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our desire is to see gods word reach the world through the church, so we provide tools to christian ministries to multiply their outreach and discipleship efforts. With publish4all you can print and distribute god-honoring books, curriculum, and other resources to advance the kingdom as well as disciple believers. Additionally, creating books through the publish4all community provides access to a whole life discipleship model for integrating work, faith, and economics. Utilizing print-on-demand gives immediate cost savings as well as local inventory control. In the hands of entrepreneurial users, publish4all is a proven revenue generating enterprise that creates jobs and stimulates the broader local economy. Publish4all can increase the quality of living in a community by providing local access to printed educational materials. Beyond book production, publish4all can generate jobs and provide a hands-on technical training platform to develop useful and transferrable skills.

What it reported doing in 2024

Nairobi training center - training and development of print hubs. Training of indigenous print on demand centers. For local production and distribution of spiritual and education resources in the developing world. Training of operator technicians, training of business management, and training of local distribution.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 51
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 5.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.9; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $301K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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 scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.