The Friends of Yimbo

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260820637
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location
Fullerton, CA, USA
Phone
6269633661
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$178,213
Expenses
$209,283
Assets
$108,409
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BEN ODIPO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DR CHARLES ODIPO (DIRECTOR)
  • BEN ODIPO (PRESIDENT)
  • ALYSIA ODIPO (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To support the village of muguna, angwenyo and uyoma, kenya in raising funds for clean water, education, community health, and micro-enterprise opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Continuing to support the following projects under the four focus areas:1. Clean water - provide matching funds for water tanks, gutters and fittings for households in muguna village. Also supporting routine maintenance for the foy funded water well and associated sanitation training programs.2. Education - provide ongoing support for professional learning for teaching staff, scholarship sponsorships, school uniform purchase for all students, sanitary hygiene pads for girls in grade 5-8, purchase of required textbooks for all students, installation of technology in library (projector andsound), laptops for all teachers, student assessment kits, classroom repairs, visiting scholar program sponsorship, pe equipment purchase.3. Community health - sponsorship of medical camp - general checkup/referral and dental work.4. Microenterprise -funding of bakery startup business and youth mobilizations and ongoing small business training.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - 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: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • 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: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd 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 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.