The Foundation for Afghanistan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264686601
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2026522336
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,250
- Expenses
- $8,173
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Abduljalil Ghafoory (Executive Dir.)
- Rachel Pearson (Vice Chairman)
- Mary Beth Long (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support projects, programs and initiatives intended to promote international cooperation and mutual understanding between the people of Afghanistan and those of other countries, to combat community deterioration by facilitating the reconstruction of Afghanistan and, through such reconstruction, to provide relief to the poor and distressed in Afghanistan, by means such as educational exchange and scholarship programs, both to enable the next generation of leaders in Afghanistan and Afghan scholars to develop or improve their capabilities through study at colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere and also to facilitate the conduct of field research in Afghanistan by scholars from the United States, conferences, seminars, lecture series, nonpartisan research and analysis, information exchanges and publications regarding Afghan history and culture and Afghan-related economic, reconstruction, security and social issues, and formal and informal opportunities for discussion.
What it reported doing in 2014
Scholarships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.8%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 5
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -263.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -192.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -184.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.8% of revenue deployed · 4.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $400 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2013 to 2014
- 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 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.