Rwanda Shines
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462984913
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2103424242
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,952
- Expenses
- $66,957
- Assets
- $65,269
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL WEISS (PRESIDENT)
- RYAN BARNETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NATHAN RUSENGO AMOOTI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL WEISS (PRESIDENT)
- RYAN BARNETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NATHAN RUSENGO AMOOTI (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
Rwanda Shines is the U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to supporting the people of Rwanda and promoting their well-being, collaborating with local Rwandan leaders to help rebuild lives after the 1994 Genocide, striving to make a lasting impact through education, healthcare, and church development.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support for the star school by providing programs and sponsorships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.1%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
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: 43.2%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 42.1% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.