Shoes4water
Legal name: Shoes 4 Water
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474777163
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2018
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Wirges, SC, USA
- Phone
- 49
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,772
- Expenses
- $15,101
- Assets
- $27,792
- Liabilities
- $8,062
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVEN W BELL (CEO)
People named in this filing
- STEVEN W BELL (CEO)
- JOHN FORRESTER (TREASURER/CFO)
- BOB ADAMS (BOARD MEMEBER)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Unsere Mission bei shoes4water ist es, innovative, wasserfeste Schuhe zu entwickeln, die den Abenteuergeist fördern und dabei die Umwelt respektieren.
What it reported doing in 2018
Shoes4water shipped the drilling rig and truck to kenya where they dug four wells, purchased a car for use in kenya, and purchased 2 acres of land to build a base to keep equipment. The base is scheduled to be built in 2018. Shoes4water has also shipped a lot of other supplies in a shipping container to kenya for the communities there.
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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -123%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -94.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2017 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.