Sustainable Cambodia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200175973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3523175940
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $495,649
- Expenses
- $491,077
- Assets
- $486,175
- Liabilities
- $2,245
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gabor Karsai (Volunteer Director/ President)
- Jennifer Scott (Volunteer Director/ Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Elena Fraser (Volunteer Director)
- Richard R Allen (Volunteer Director)
- Bruce A Lasky (Volunteer Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to empower rural Cambodian villages in becoming self-sustaining communities that coordinate their own development committees and Self-Help Groups to implement programs that address their highest needs. Programs include wells and safe water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Bio-Sand and Ceramic Filters, Rooftop Rainwater Harvest tanks (RRH), Gardens, Agriculture and Pass-On Animals, Economic Opportunities, Healthcare workshops, especially for women, Days for Girls Kits and extensive Educational Enrichment programs for children from preschools through graduation. Education programs include instruction in the students' native language of Khmer, Math, English, Computers, Literacy and Library Time, Traditional Cambodian Dance, Health and Hygiene and Advanced Tutor Classes. Youth Clubs self-organize community service projects, host events and develop leadership skills. All paid staff members are native Cambodians. Everyone else is an unpaid volunteer, including the board of directors.
What it reported doing in 2024
Working side-by-side with beneficiary families, our teams train and empower communities to rebuild and maintain their quality of life. Access to year-round Safe Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) continues to be a cornerstone of our village sustainability programs. Water supports gardens that build food security. Water supports agriculture, livestock and cash crops that lead to economic growth. Household filtered water and food provide children (who are often the main water carriers for their families) with time and good health to attend school to grow their futures. In 2024 Community Development Program Accomplishments and Beneficiaries included 31 Animal Pass-On Cows and animal raising trainings to benefit 31 families with 142 people with farm labor and economic opportunities; 19 Wells to benefit 78 families with 502 people with year-round water for drinking and daily use; 25 WASH Trainings to benefit 955 people with understanding of how programs work and how to maintain them; 82 Latrines to benefit 386 people with improved sanitation and hygiene; 104 RRH tanks to benefit 104 families and to benefit 746 people by capturing rainwater in large concrete tanks, sealed to prevent contamination; 8 Community Ponds to benefit 160 families with 754 people, 2 School WASH projects to benefit 276 children; 283 Ceramic Filters to benefit 283 families with 1,517 people with home water filtration systems to reduce water-borne diseases and to improve health and productivity; 15 Home Vegetable Garden trainings along with seeds and tools to provide 141 families with 853 people with increased composting skills, nutrition, food security and income generating opportunities and 12 Self-Help Group trainings to provide 421 villagers with skills in strengthening community sustainability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 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: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $90.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 0.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $485K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.