Watoto Child Care Ministry Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593445250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8139484343
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,331,428
- Expenses
- $7,497,988
- Assets
- $3,252,656
- Liabilities
- $299,103
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIUS RWOTLONYO (PRESIDENT)
- EUGENE STUTZMAN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRENT SMITH (DIR OF DEVEL): $137,812 total reported compensation
- EUGENE STUTZMAN (CEO): $116,773 total reported compensation
- VALERIE KING (CFO): $84,606 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is one of seven representative support offices around the world that supports the watoto ministry (watoto). Watoto is a holistic care program that was initiated as a response to the overwhelming number of orphaned children and vulnerable women in uganda. Watoto is positioned to rescue individuals, raise each one as a leader in their chosen sphere of life so that they in turn will rebuild their nation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sponsor a life program - through the sponsorship of babies, children, and vulnerable women, the organization provides financial support to watoto. Watoto provides holistic care to those in need in uganda. The holistic model involves physical care, medical intervention including HIV/AIDS treatment, education - both formal and technical, trauma counseling, and spiritual discipleship. So far, over 1,000 children rescued by the organization have now reached adulthood and have graduated the program with the life skills and education they need to be independent. Program graduates include professionals such as teachers, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and engineers, among others. Watoto is continuing to raise transformational leaders, who will positively impact every sphere of society, reforming uganda and serving as a model for the rest of africa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.