Saha Global Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263802466
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5085618900
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,366,874
- Expenses
- $2,611,117
- Assets
- $5,064,736
- Liabilities
- $45,667
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHERINE CINCOTTA (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHERINE CINCOTTA (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT): $140,806 total reported compensation
- KATHRYN PADGETT (DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION & S): $130,453 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide the capital, training, and ongoing support to ghanian women in impoverished rural communities so they can start and sustain small water treatment centers so that the communities can have safe and affordable drinking water while the women can earn supplemental income.
What it reported doing in 2025
Service delivery - by the end of the year, saha's full utility portfolio now included 470 water points, encompassing both surface and groundwater systems. These centers now provide safe, professionally managed water service to over 135,000 people across five regions. The impact of saha's utility-style service model became fully visible in 2025. Across all saha communities, clean water production surpassed 20 million liters by the end of the year, more than triple the volume produced in 2024 (while serving roughly the same population). The service delivery team focused on both upgrading legacy systems to our new model and providing services to all systems throughout the year.
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 - 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 52
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.