Taus Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300141810
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Fitchburg, MA, USA
Phone
9786603647
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$93,954
Expenses
$95,694
Assets
$161,147
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Shukrani Magoma (President)

People named in this filing

  • Shukrani Magoma (President)
  • Kumba Abayo (Secretary)
  • Soga Mbilima (Treasurer)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Tanzanian Seventh Day Adventist Church Members Charity organization. TAUS's mission is to evangelize and provide health, education and other services that improve the quality of life of people in Tanzania. These efforts include evangelism in poor and un-entered areas. It also includes ongoing efforts with many of our programs including Scholarships for Pastors, Laptops for Pastors, Morning Star Radio, and supporting Health Services in Southern Tanzania.

What it reported doing in 2024

Established in 1999, the Tanzanian Adventists in the United States of America (TAUS) is an organization of Seventh-day Adventists from Tanzania, East Africa. TAUS's mission is to evangelize and provide health, education and other services that improve the quality of life of people in Tanzania. These efforts include evangelism in poor and un-entered areas. It also includes ongoing efforts with many of our programs including Scholarships for Pastors and midwives, Morning Star Radio, and supporting Health Services in Southern Tanzania.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.