Rockflower Partners Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454376604
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Southampton, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9172263383
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,236
- Expenses
- $183,752
- Assets
- $3,413
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINE WARD (PRESIDENT,CEO,DIR,TRE (THRU 3/2025))
- CHARLOT MAGAYI (PRESIDENT (EFF 4/2025) & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTINE WARD (PRESIDENT,CEO,DIR,TRE (THRU 3/2025))
- MIRIAM FOLEY (DIRECTOR & SECRETARY)
- CHARLOT MAGAYI (PRESIDENT (EFF 4/2025) & 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rockflower partners, inc ("rockflower") is a venture philanthropy fund designed to bring catalytic funding and creative new partnerships to locally led, civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs working to improve the lives of women and girls. Working through the lens of the "five keys" - peace and security, maternal and reproductive health, access to food and water, education and economic empowerment, rockflower partners with NGO's, social businesses and entrepreneurs implementing real and substantive change to ensure that women are recognized as the change agents in their communities and societies.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rockflowers achievements in 2024 continued to focus on balancing the most critical needs facing women and girls within their communities, whilst also maintaining a vision to help them create a sustainable future. We continued to provide emergency funding to those partners facing dire emergencies to ensure that they felt supported during the most critical life threatening moments. The challenges of poverty, malnutrition, violence and conflict have only increased with the intensity of climate change and rising costs of living. For that reason rockflower has continued to provide targeted funding for those partners who are deeply embedded within the communities they serve. Many of the grassroots women's associations were the lifeline for so many families last year. We anticipate the need only being greater as multiple challenges face those living on the farthest margins. We were also able to support those partners who have built on our years of support and are now able to transition into building more sustainable sources of income with the introduction of new approaches to agriculture including agroecology and micro farming. We have added one new partner in ghana with a focus on rice intensification. We were also able to cross pollinate ideas connecting partners across regions and expertise. This was particularly successful with a pilot project between womenchoice industries in tanzania and sofdi in the drc. We look forward to further developing our "seed to canopy" funding model in the years ahead.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 0.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.