S a V E Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841725636
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Carmel, IN, USA
Phone
3179892448
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,710
Expenses
$58,204
Assets
$16,204
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • David Musa (Executive Director)
  • Emeric Palmer (Board and Vice President)
  • Brian Bowen (Board and President)

People named in this filing

  • David Musa (Executive Director)
  • Emeric Palmer (Board and Vice President)
  • Lawrence Moran (Board and Treasurer)

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

The mission of SAVE is to voluntarily make ourselves available, with the help of God, as instruments of agape love to the people of Sierra Leone, maintaining a healthy balance between social action and evangelism: a combination of relief and relationships. The specific purposes of SAVE are understood within the context of the Christian faith and community: 1. To minister to the spiritual, educational and physical needs of the people of Sierra Leone 2. To provide support to existing Christian ministries in Sierra Leone 3. To heighten public awareness of the great needs in Sierra Leone 4. To encourage and facilitate personal and practical involvement in meeting these needs 5. To commit time to pray for the church and the nation of Sierra Leone

What it reported doing in 2025

Grants to support ministry partners in their holistic Gospel ministries.

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. 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: 37
  • Growth: 0

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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -85.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st 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 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • 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.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.