Teach Men to Fish
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814989457
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,298
- Expenses
- $60,231
- Assets
- $62,468
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK MILLER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PATRICK LUTALO (FIELD OPERAT)
- MARK MILLER (PRESIDENT)
- SPENCE FLOURNY (TEASURER)
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
To eradicate extreme poverty to unfortunate poor young men and women by introducing them to hands on vocational training in construction teaching them basic fundamental skills with tools to sustain their own livelihood
What it reported doing in 2024
Trained the apprentices with advanced structural skills, which let to the construction of the entire 2 and floor slab and the upper superstructure walls on the slab to wall plate level and ready to put on the roof before the december rains this year 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
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: 40.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.