Sew Powerful
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453327800
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Yuba City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4258029852
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,745,576
- Expenses
- $1,782,059
- Assets
- $935,982
- Liabilities
- $8,374
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON MILES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON MILES (PRESIDENT): $3,077 total reported compensation
- CINNAMON MILES (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $1,538 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sew powerful is a christian ministry serving schools, children, and families in zambia with vocational training and purposeful products, such as reusable feminine hygiene pads, soap, and food.
What it reported doing in 2024
Feeding & training program - three program areas. First, we provided approximately 5,000 students a daily lunch at ten local schools. Food is donated by convoy of hope and supplemented by fresh food we produce. We provide funds to employ cooks and coordinators at each school to prepare and serve the meals, as well as to track health outcomes.second, our "3 esthers farm" produces fresh vegetables and orchard fruit that are served to children via the school lunch program.third, the backyard gardens program focuses on teen empowerment by having older teens manage backyard gardens for widows and vulnerable households in our service area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $72.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.