Malawi Children's Mission

What it reported doing in 2024

During the 2024-25 fiscal year, the children's mission focus was supporting the work being done in malawi, africa by mbwana children's mission by spreading awareness, raising funds to support the organization and supporting programming. Here are highlights of the program: 1)since 2007 mbwana children's mission has served approximately 300 orphaned and vulnerable children with an active roster of 160 - children ages 3 - 27 during the 2024-25 fiscal year. At the start, 3 fresh water wells were established providing water access for over 1000 people in the community and to date over 900,000 meals have been served. (continued on schedule o)today, every child receives breakfast and lunch 5 days a week. Medical services are available for the children and their guardians from assessment, treatment, prevention to hospital stays. The onsite primary school, mcm academy has 120 children pre-k - std 8 (of which 93 are mcm children and the others attend daily from a local orphanage malo a mcherezo), 1 child boards full time at aquaid life line primary school, 53 children attend secondary school, 1 child has an apprenticeship, 10 at technical colleges/ trade schools and 2 in university. The program's mission is to provide services for the "whole child and the opportunity to have a future of independence beyond poverty. Mcm is not an orphanage model so the children live in the community with family or guardians. 2)again this year $50k was contributed by one family towards all tertiary programs and the on-site informal vocational training program which launched in january 2022. Young adults from the community were invited to participate including those who were previously a part of mcm.this fiscal year there was full class of 15 for tailoring and 4 for hairdressing who graduated in december 2024. The third cohort started in january 2025 with 15 in tailoring and 14 in hairdressing. 3)a highlight for the year was a partnership started by howard hibbs, us citizen who visited mcm in june 2023, with tiyeni a malawian based organization. In collaboration with mcm, tiyeni taught deep bed farming techniques to 15 farmers (5 from each of the surrounding villages) to help them efficiently harvest more food.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
• Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $28.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Limited
  • Conducts field audits: Limited
  • May suspend future funding: Limited
  • Requires financial reports: Limited
  • Conducts site visits: Limited
  • Requires grant agreements: Limited
  • May require repayment: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings