Sawa Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611948105
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7572742973
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,938
- Expenses
- $216,073
- Assets
- $15,038
- Liabilities
- $10,493
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adonis Agha (President)
- Vanessa Sparkman (Vice-President & Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Adonis Agha (President)
- Akram Shakeri (Near Asia Director)
- Vanessa Sparkman (Vice-President & Secretary)
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
Provide aid to post-conflict communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Relief aid: Middle East-food aid; Middle East-medical aid general with elderly focus; Near Asia-travel aid; Africa & Near Asia-rent & debt relief for displaced families
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $185K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.