Twef International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571163486
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8324345325
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $362,454
- Expenses
- $195,364
- Assets
- $399,260
- Liabilities
- $36,386
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Deavra Daughtry (CHAIRMAN)
- Joann McGarthy (TREASURER)
- Ebone Stowers (SECRETARY)
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 organization is geared towards helping families from all walks of life, reach their fullest potential in the areas of business, education, finances, and socio-economic status.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Urban Garden, initiated in 2015, promotes STEM and agriculture with positive behavioral changes that include better nutrition and increased physical activity while teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills to youth through farmers markets. The program has expanded to offer summer STEM camps and implement sustainable regenerative agriculture practices. We broadened our reach to introduce agriculture to the 18 - 35 age demographic through paid internships and established a monthly educational partnership with the University of Houston. The organization provides produce to seniors citizens for free throughout the greater Houston area. The key objective remains helping student leaders apply lessons learned in school to the service of creating a community garden within an urban food desert. The issues being addressed include the lack of access to fresh fruits and vegetables in the community and resolving high rates of obesity through education.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.1%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 65.1%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 46.1%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.1% of revenue deployed · 65.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $127K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.