Ushahidi Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 262652079
IRS 990 coverage: 2010–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2024
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
Phone: 4153616759
Rating: 68
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: International Peace and Security

Reported finances

Revenue: $532,372
Expenses: $1,905,295
Assets: $861,690
Liabilities: $24,138

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

ANGELA A ODOUR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

ANGELA A ODOUR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $133,206 total reported compensation
DECLAN A OTTARO (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $114,637 total reported compensation
DANIEL ODONGO (DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT): $104,973 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Ushahidi makes crowdsourcing, visualization, and interactive mapping tools for social good, giving people a voice to share what happened, when and wherever they are in the world. That mission is in the "ushahidi", which means "testimony" in swahili.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ushahidi platform - the ushahidi platform helps communities turn information into action with an intuitive and accessible crowdsourcing and mapping tool. By enabling the rapid collection, management and analysis of crowdsourced information, ushahidi empowers everyone-individuals, community groups, governments, activists, organizations-to create meaningful change.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 93% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 81
Transparency & Controls: 55
Accountability: 87
Sustainability: 14
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
Fundraising efficiency: $2.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: -257.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 10 people listed
Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.