Wakulima USA

Overview

Mission

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from members undertaking manufacturing and delivering product downstream through our marketing channels. We will make value addition one of our core focuses - transformation packaging distribution and marketing of farm products both crop and livestock. Our Farming and Food Business Development Center will provide farming and food business training support and enterprise incubation to aspiring entrepreneurs from the communities we serve. We will provide the farmers and entrepreneurs we serve with mentorship farmland processing and storage facilities and marketing and distribution support. Our Community Kitchen and Cultural Center will provide a welcoming space for diverse communities to come together and share their foods cultures values and s

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 5
• Transparency & Controls: 85
• Accountability: 32
• Sustainability: 43
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 5.1% of revenue deployed · 6.4% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 6 people listed
• Consistency: 38 of 41 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
• Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
• Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 8 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
• High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.