South Africa Partners Inc

Overview

Mission

Organization's mission or most significant activities south africa partners (sa partners) brings together the skills, talent, and resources needed to build in the new south africa. By facilitating mutually beneficial partnreships between organizations and institutions in theunited states and south africa, sa partners is able to leverage reources, transfer skills, and build capacity in south africa. Our partnerships focus on addressing key areas of health and education; identifying new and unique ways to address social challenges in both countries. Sa partners is committed to identifying and facilitating strategic partnership opportunities that: 1) build the capacity of south african organizations and improve their ability to carry out program activities; 2) offer the potantial for long-term collaborations between institutions in the united states and south africa; 3) identify model programs and "best practices" that can be replicated in both countries;

Operating model

Revenue model

Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 86
• Transparency & Controls: 46
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 23
• Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.4% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $592K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 7 people listed
• Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
• Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
• 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.