Clean Water for Haiti
Clean Water for Haiti
Vancouver WA | IRS ruling year: 2005 | EIN: 20-2586482
Organization Mission
Empowering Haitian families to gain control over their health and the water they consume.
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Vancouver WA | IRS ruling year: 2005 | EIN: 20-2586482
Organization Mission
Empowering Haitian families to gain control over their health and the water they consume.
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This charity's score is 99%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.
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Christopher Rolling, Executive Director
$39,175
Ashley Thompson, President
$0
John Finegan, Treasurer
$0
Courtney Blackburn, Secretary
$0
Geoffrey Comber, Board Member
$0
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2022
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Foundation Status:
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
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Score
This beacon estimates the actual impact a charity has on the lives of those it serves, and determines whether it is making good use of donor resources to achieve that impact.
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Program
Filter Program
Activities
Clean Water for Haiti was established in 2001 and is the largest provider of biosand filters in Haiti. On average, 75% of filters are still in use 5 years after installation.
Program Type
Water Purification
Beneficiaries Served
Economically disadvantaged, low-income and poor people
Program Geography
Haiti
Time Period of Data
1/1/17 to 12/31/17
Outcomes: Changes in the lives of those served by a nonprofit. They can be caused by the nonprofit.
Costs: The money spent by a nonprofit and its partners and beneficiaries.
Impact: Outcome caused by a nonprofit relative to its cost.
Cost-effectiveness: A judgment as to whether the cost was a good use of resources to cause the outcome.
Outcome Metric
A year of clean water provided to a person.
Outcome Data Source
Ratings are based on data the nonprofit itself collects on its work. We use the most recent year with sufficient data. Typically, this data allows us to calculate direct changes in participants' lives, such as increased income.
Outcome data collected through visits to filters. All filters are visited 1 month, 3 months, 1 year and 5 years after installation. All data from visits is recorded. Clean water for Haiti tracks the adoption rate of the filters over time and shows any issues in production, education, and technician training.
Method for Attributing Outcomes
We don't know if the observed changes were caused by the nonprofit's program or something else happening at the same time (e.g., a participant got a raise). To determine causation, we take the outcomes we observe and subtract an estimate of the outcomes that would have happened even without the program (i.e., counterfactual outcomes).
Clean Water for Haiti conjectures that 20 percent of clients would have gained access to clean water through other pathways in the absence of the intervention. We therefore attribute 80 percent of the increase in clean water access to the filter program.
Cost Data Source
After estimating the program's outcomes, we need to determine how much it cost to achieve those outcomes. All monetary costs are counted, whether they are borne by a nonprofit service deliverer or by the nonprofit’s public and private partners.
Cost information for this program was collected from nonprofit reporting and form 990 data from the IRS.
Cost Calculation
This impact rating was produced using a previous methodology that is not updated to reflect inflation, and we are therefore unable to generate a dollar-specific cost calculations.
We calculate impact, defined as the change in outcomes attributable to a program divided by the cost to achieve those outcomes.
Impact Calculation
This impact rating was produced using a previous methodology that is not updated to reflect inflation, and we are therefore unable to generate a dollar-specific impact calculations.
Benchmark for Rating
Impact & Results score of this program is based on the incremental cost to provide a year of clean water to one individual. If the program provides a year of clean water to one individual less than 75% of the estimated market cost of water in the country of operation, the program is deemed highly cost-effective and earns a score of 100. If the program provides a year of clean water to one individual for between 75% and 125% the estimated market cost of water, the program is considered cost-effective and earns a score of 80. If the program provides a year of clean water to one individual for greater than 125% the estimated market cost of water, it earns a score of 65.
Determination
Highly cost-effective
Score
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's culture and connectedness to the community it serves.
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30% of beacon score
This organization reported that it is collecting feedback from the constituents and/or communities it serves. The methodology leveraged for Constituent Feedback is based on The Core Principles of Constituent Feedback, which describes listening and responding well to feedback. Charity Navigator participates in a consortium with other feedback experts and leading nonprofit infrastructure platforms to drive Constituent Feedback's advancement, promotion, and data collection.
How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
What challenges does your organization face in collecting feedback from the people you serve?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
70% of beacon score
This organization's score of 83 is a passing score. The organization reported that it is implementing 6 Equity Practices.
This assessment demonstrates the importance of implementing practices that contribute positively to an organization's overall culture, both internally and with respect to community engagement. Furthermore, equity centered frameworks and similar approaches have drawn much attention from donors, experts, and sector leaders who underscore its value to the nonprofit's overall health and capacity for mission success. Currently, the Equity Strategies Checklist assessment consists of practices and policies that promote racial equity in their operations and programs (per the Equity Strategies checklist administered by Candid). As we refine our DEI assessment, Charity Navigator partners with DEI consultants and field experts to broaden and deepen this work.
Equity Practices (4/7) | |
We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race. | |
We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and/or portfolios. | |
We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization/'s programs, portfolios, and the populations served. | |
We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support. | |
We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders. | |
We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured | |
We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. |
Equity Policies and Procedures (2/7) | |
We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity. | |
We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions. | |
We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization. | |
We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board. | |
We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability. | |
We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team. | |
We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. |
Score
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
Empowering Haitian families to gain control over their health and the water they consume.
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
It's our goal to help end the water crisis in Haiti by providing access to potable water at the hous
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: To install a minimum of 250 filters per month, giving over 1250 people access to clean water in their homes, and to exceed this number whenever possible.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Two: Continue to focus on our biosand filter project and aim for excellence in everything we do, because we believe the Haitian people deserve to have a reliable source to access clean water.
Goal Type: Focus on core programs to achieve mission and scale back on programs not seen as core.
Goal Three: Maintain 6 months of operating expenses in reserve so we can continue to work at capacity even when there may be crisis in Haiti or within our support base, enabling continuity for our beneficiaries.
Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
Describe an investment in leadership
Our leadership staff have the freedom to seek out educational opportunities and skill development in any area they feel necessary. Our Haitian staff are regularly given the opportunity to develop and learn skills that will allow them to advance within the organization.
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:
Strategic Partnerships
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?
Clean Water for Haiti has frequently worked with other non-profits to implement filter projects within Haiti on their behalf because of the long-term expertise and proven track record that we can offer as an organization. As an organization we have participated in and helped support various studies that have been done on the water crisis in Haiti, and have also had members of our organization not only help with the development and implementation of program models and equipment changes, but also in writing and publishing papers and presenting at various conferences both in Haiti and the US about the work we do. We believe part of our work is to educated the general public about the need for potable water in Haiti, so we are active on social media and in fundraising efforts.
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
Haiti has been severely impacted by political and civil unrest in recent years, starting in 2018. In 2019 the country experienced months of lockdown where it was impossible to move through the nation freely. Through 2020, 2021 and into 2022 there was an increase in gang activity. Initially this focused in specific regions, but over the past few years it has become widespread and now the entire country is impacted and suffering. Gangs control most of the major areas, but have also crept into rural areas. It's unsafe to travel through most parts of the country, especially with cargo. This has greatly impacted our organization. In the fall of 2022 we had to make the decision to move to a completely Haitian run model in Haiti as our foreign staff had to leave for safety reasons. This has worked very well and Clean Water for Haiti has been able to continue to provide access to clean water for the Haitian people. Our team in Haiti is consistently managing the challenges of navigating supply purchasing and availability and being safe while transporting and providing support for filters. While we anticipated and planned for a smaller number of filter installations in 2023 because of the transition and insecurity, our team has done an amazing job and has surpassed all the goals that we had set for the year.
Impact & Results
Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability
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