Together for West Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843275150
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brandon, MS, USA
- Phone
- 2282433195
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,726
- Expenses
- $27,807
- Assets
- $25,213
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Hutchinson (CEO, TFWA Field Leader)
People named in this filing
- Michael Hutchinson (CEO, TFWA Field Leader)
- Lynn Hutchinson (Director, Field Personnel)
- Laura Clark (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Together for West Africa (TFWA) is an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) program services nonprofit with direct poverty-assistance program services being delivered by field personnel to families, children and adults, in Togo, West Africa. The field personnel of TFWA are headquartered in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. The general funds donated to TFWA by donors in the USA compose the entire general budget for the organization. There are two main programs delivered by TFWA field personnel and their associates in Togo throughout the year -- Togo Family Assistance Program and the Togo Tigers Program (mainly ABCD delivered to young Togolese men and women). The TFWA field peronnel make two trips (1-2 months each trip) a year to Togo to deliver services "on the ground in Togo." This also allows TFWA field personnel time to strengthen their relationship with the Togolese associates in country.
What it reported doing in 2024
Togo Family Assistance Program: This program is designed to assist Togo family members of all ages in meeting the everyday demands of their daily lives. Most of these families are struggling through life at the near-poverty level and they need financial assistance to meet life's basic needs -- food, clothing, shelter, medical, education, transportation, etcetera. This is done by TFWA field personnel through financial support and teaching basic life skills. Of course, all of this contact with the family members allows the TFWA field personnel to share and teach the love of Jesus.
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 available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
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: 31.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -44.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.