TFalls Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832649082
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Acworth, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6787706087
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $232,377
- Expenses
- $257,771
- Assets
- $122,142
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Wangondu (President)
People named in this filing
- Charles Wangondu (President)
- David Kirkpatrick (Board Chair)
- Lezlie Renee Pipes (Secretary/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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Mission of the TFalls Foundation is to repair and renovate primary schools and high schools that are in need in Kenya. There are many schools that are in poor condition and, as a result, teachers can not properly educate, and students cannot effectively learn. The TFalls Foundation strives to methodically upgrade the building structures in schools of need one school at a time. The TFalls Foundation will work closely with the local community throughout the construction process with a goal of handing off a vastly improved school structure to the faculty, parents and students.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kayu Primary Facility Overhaul: 4b Kayu Comprehensive School, a public primary and secondary institution located in Central Kenya, serves approximately 200 students. However, the school has faced challenges in recent years, including a decline in enrollment. Many parents have chosen to enroll their children in distant neighboring schools due to the deteriorating state of facilities at Kayu Comprehensive. The Overhaul includes constructing 12 Bathrooms, 3 staff Bathrooms and Renovations to the Administrative Offices.
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
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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -10.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $248K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.