Sankofa Impact

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824469281
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2064126499
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$156,838
Expenses
$528,646
Assets
$291,591
Liabilities
$2,087

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • FELICIA ISHINO-AMEN (Executive Dir.)
  • SASHA DUTTCHOUDHURY (Chairman)
  • SHARON CHISM (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sankofa Impact brings people together for place-based learning that confronts our history of racism, uplifts stories of resistance, and celebrates culture.

What it reported doing in 2024

1. Pilgrimage to the south (our signature program): a. Community building: we begin our pilgrimage to the south with learning and community building at home. We come together for a series of mandatory sessions where we learn from each other and about ourselves through respectful dialogue, reading and video assignments, and participatory exercises. We believe in the popular education model, in which every person in our community has the capacity to teach and to learn. We believe these sessions are vital to a successful experience in the american south. B. Impactful places & spaces: then we embark on our pilgrimage to the south where we visit key places in the black-american freedom struggle and spend time with foot soldiers who lived history then and leaders of movements making history today.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -237.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -60.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $317K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.