Quench and Connect
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273677028
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6192267303
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,458
- Expenses
- $40,084
- Assets
- $125,189
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATHRYN R ELY PHD (Executive Dir.)
- CYNTHIA HEDGES (SECRETARY/TREAS)
- KATIE SCHMITZ-EULITT (Director)
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
To improve student achievement at schools in Uganda by providing clean water and educational tools for success.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, computers and science teaching tools were provided to St. Denis SS in Rakai District. Prior years' accomplishments are described below. The government of Uganda does not yet provide universal high school secondary education, so nearly two-thirds of the high schools in the country are private schools established by parents and private citizens who recognize the value of secondary education. These schools operate on very small budgets received from modest fees paid by students families. Consequently, the schools have few teaching tools, and students have no textbooks. As another facet of its work, Quench and Connect has followed up with educational assistance. After a school has received a borehole and students are healthy, Quench and Connect has assisted the educational programs at selected schools. Quench and Connects goal is to support the curriculum according to the priorities of the national educational program of the Uganda Ministry of Education. To achieve this goal, following site-visits and discussions with teachers, Quench and Connect has identified donors to provide specific teaching tools needed by the teachers. The need is particularly great for science teaching. To date, teaching tools have been provided to eleven high schools by Quench and Connect donors. In each case, the academic achievement increased at the school. For science teaching, there has been an increase in students interest in science, computer technology, and mathematics after teaching tools like computers, microscopes, chemicals and small laboratory equipment arrived on campus. One of the recipient schools recently ranked sixth in science national exams among 350 schools in one of the strongest districts in the country.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.8%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 52.6%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.3%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.12; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.8% of revenue deployed · 52.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 20/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.