Salvation Academy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161751939
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,000
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brima Bob Deen (President CEO)
  • Aminata Kanu (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Brima Bob Deen (President CEO)
  • Aminata Kanu (Vice President)
  • Jolly Anaba (Legal Adviser - Attorney at Law)

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 primary exempt purpose of Salvation Academy is to provide accessible high-quality education and vocational training to empower individuals especially youth and women with the knowledge skills and leadership capacity necessary to promote sustainable economic development reduce irregular migration and transform communities through innovative and practical learning solutions.

What it reported doing in 2025

1. Youth Leadership and Vocational Training Programs Trained over 550 African youth in leadership entrepreneurship and vocational skills focusing on agriculture technology and small business development. Successfully launched a Leadership Capacity Building Program targeting irregular migration featuring monthly training modules in economic intellectual and digital empowerment. Developed partnerships with local and international organizations to enhance training content certification and mentorship.

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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 4 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.