Ubuntu Center for Peace Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811160095
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175194993
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Peace and Security
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $214,836
- Expenses
- $173,778
- Assets
- $42,094
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN D BATT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ARAI TATSUSHI RESIGNED (DIRECTOR)
- LESLIE BELAY RESIGNED (DIRECTOR)
- MAURICE MIDDLEBURG RESIGNED (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ubuntu center for peace promotes community based social healing in rural communities and selected schools in rwanda through a 15 week course for 15-20 participants each in body, breath and mind practice, cultural rituals and story telling concerning participants' trauma and other mental challenges.
What it reported doing in 2024
The ubuntu center for peace supports community based social healing in healing circles (15-20 participants each) to address post-traumatic stress syndrome and other mental illness and domestic and community conflict in rural rwanda. In fy 24-25, 9,709 persons participated with over 70% improvements in well-being measured using standard research protocols and questionnaires. A subset (1,080 persons) of this group was part of a randomized control trial evaluating the intervention with participants in 27 villages matched against 27 villages without the intervention (promised for next year with the control group). Results confirmed the effectiveness of the healing model. Another subset (460 participants) were secondary school students, who received a modified form of the healing approach, acclaimed by teachers and administrators as improving mental health and social behavior of the young people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 19.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 53.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 131.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $170K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.