With Women Kisoboka

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844956061
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Cambridge, MA, USA
Phone
9787295321
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Job Training

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,097
Expenses
$65,194
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • April Stone (Founder and President)

People named in this filing

  • April Stone (Founder and President)
  • Amelia Koch (Treasurer)
  • Michael Epstein (Clerk)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

With Women Kisoboka focuses on gender equity, women's economic empowerment, and change in their community as a solution to the longstanding poverty in Uganda. Through women's entrepreneurship, we help women grow their business knowledge, community-awareness, resources and networks. This allows them to make financially responsible decisions in their businesses and social enterprises which will improve the health and well-being, education, environment, and resiliency of their community. Mission: To inspire upward economic mobility and self-sufficiency, and sustainability of Uganda's marginalized women living at the lowest income level who are motivated to spark change in their community.

What it reported doing in 2024

With Women Kisoboka's program service accomplishments for each of its three largest program services, as measured by expense (services provided, # of persons benefited, other relevant info: Supporting Women's Entrepreneurship [expense: % or program lead, program coordinator, technology, expansion, NGO ED and PD]: With Women Kisoboka introduced interest-free capital as a bridge to financial inclusion for marginalized women in Uganda.This capital is not microfinance, but rather it is a simple, easily understood system that is locally managed, nurtures trust, mutual support, collaboration and growth. In just under 4 years, we have provided $16,710 in interest-free loans has transformed 782 lives of women and their families, promoting financial stability, and inspiring entrepreneurial initiatives. In 2021, With Women Kisoboka will expand through partnerships to include village savings and loans (VLSAa), digitization, and the connection with a local bank to establish a straight path from no savings to informal financial inclusion to formal financial inclusion. Community Systems Change [expense: Education/Trainings, % or program lead, program coordinator, NGO ED and PD]: With Women Kisoboka furthers the literacy, business and essential learning of With Women Kisoboka women members, many who did not benefit from beyond public primary schooling. We have offered 385 hours of education in functional adult literacy, business education, as well as locally-led workshops in family planning, nutrition, and healthcare that has improved the 20 new businesses the women have developed, half of which are collaboratives and are increasingly addressing community systems change. These bold, resourceful Ugandan women are improving access to clean water and better sanitation, clean energy, and electricity, health, agricultural innovation, arts, education, nutrition. They are tackling the effects of gender inequity, extreme poverty, climate change while simultaneously improving their financial stability and transforming gender equity in Ugandan culture. Peer-driven collaborative change [expense: collaborative businesses; % or program lead, program coordinator, NGO ED and PD]: With Women Kisoboka is committed to shared leadership and peer-driven change. At the core of our approach to the work are cultural humility and a commitment to shared leadership. With Women Kisoboka is a Uganda-U.S.-based partnership that listens to local women who are the experts of their own lives. Our role is to leverage resources, provide tools, training, and opportunities for the women to realize their entrepreneurial vision. The 2021 collaborative business selected to date by our women members include poultry rearing, kitchen gardening and clean water access, bee keeping and honey production, bookmaking, fish farming, and renewable waste briquette making.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -38.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.