South Sudanese Enrichment for Families Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
432043910
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
Location
Wakefield, MA, USA
Phone
7813220063
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$395,068
Expenses
$369,365
Assets
$601,813
Liabilities
$25,435

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUSAN WINSHIP KOENIG (CO-EXECUTIVE DIR. & PRESIDENT)
  • PANTHER ALIER (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SUSAN WINSHIP KOENIG (CO-EXECUTIVE DIR. & PRESIDENT): $65,000 total reported compensation
  • PANTHER ALIER (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $8,077 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

South sudanese enrichment for families (ssef) provides whole-family programming for education, cultural and social enrichment for the greater boston south sudanese community. Ssef is the only whole-family resource dedicated to south sudanese who have resettled in Massachusetts. Committed to enhancing strengths, building self-sufficiency, and promoting community, ssef assists with navigating systems, accessing resources, building skills, and creating opportunities to share south sudan's history and distinct cultural heritage. Ssef does this by connecting south sudanese adults and their children with the following: accessible preschool summer camp opportunities community-based enrichment outreach programs, cross-cultural events and exhibitions youth support

What it reported doing in 2025

Ssef is the only whole-family resource dedicated to south sudanese who have resettled in Massachusetts. Committed to enhancing strengths, building self-sufficiency, and promoting community, ssef assists with navigating systems, accessing resources, building skills, and creating opportunities to share south sudan's history and distinct cultural heritage. Ssef does this by connecting south sudanese adults and their children with the following: the women's programeducational empowermentcommunity-based enrichmentoutreach programs, cross-cultural events and exhibitionsthe youth program (including support for athletics)

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.2%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.2% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $261K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.