Charity Navigator - Rating for Start With One International Inc.

501(c)(3) organization

Donations are tax-deductible

www.startwithonekenya.org

400 CAROL ST
Hartford AL 36344-2204

Hartford AL | IRS ruling year: 2011 | EIN: 27-4295514

THE MISSION OF START WITH ONE INTERNATIONAL, INC. ("SWOI")IS TO PROVIDE THE SEEDS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE A SUSTAINABLE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR WORLD. CURRENTLY, THE FOCUS IS IN KENYA WITH HUMANITARIAN/DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INCLUDING BRINGING CLEAN WATER TO COMMUNITIES, HYGIENE/HEALTH CAMPAIGNS, BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS, ORPHANAGES & CHURCHES, HEALTH FACILITIES AND WOMAN'S EMPOWERMENT & BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP. IN OCTOBER 2013, SWOI BEGAN WORKING WITH A KENYAN NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, START WITH ONE KENYA ("SWOK") TO ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS. SWOI HAS SEVERAL PERSONNEL ON THE GROUND IN KENYA FOR THE PURPOSE OF RESEARCHING POTENTIAL PROJECTS AND THEN MONITORING & FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT ON THE HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS GRANTED TO AND CONDUCTED BY SWOK. SWOK HAS PERSONNEL ON THE GROUND TO BE THE HOSTS AND COORDINATORS FOR MISSION TEAMS WHICH GO AND DEMONSTRATE GOD'S LOVE BY ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THE HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS. WE ANTICIPATE THE PROJECTS TO BE

Rating Information

Great

This charity's score is 100%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.

This overall score is calculated from multiple beacon scores: 40% Accountability & Finance, 60% Impact & Results. Learn more about our criteria and methodology.

Beacon Weights

Historical Ratings

Important note on the timeliness of ratings

The IRS is significantly delayed in processing nonprofits' annual tax filings (Forms 990). As a result, the Accountability & Finance score for Start With One International Inc. is outdated and the overall rating may not be representative of its current operations. Please check with the charity directly for any questions you may have.

Rating Report

Impact & Results
Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability

Impact & ResultsAccountability & FinanceCulture & CommunityLeadership & Adaptability

Total Revenue Amount	Expectation to Receive Credit
$1 million or higher	Expected to complete an audit
$500,000 - $1 million	Expected to complete an audit, review, or compilation
Less than $500,000	No expectation (removed from scoring methodology)

Liabilities to Assets Ratio	Amount of Credit Received
Less than 50%	Full Credit
50% - 59.9%	Partial Credit
60% or more	No Credit

Program Expense Percentage	Amount of Credit Received
70% or higher	Full Credit
60% - 69.9%	Partial Credit
50% - 59.9%	Zero Points for Program Expense Score
Below 50%	Zero Points for Both Program Expense AND Liabilities to Assets Scores

Impact & Results

Start With One International Inc. has earned a 100% for the Impact & Results beacon. See the metrics below for more information.

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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Metrics

Full Credit

Partial Credit

No Credit

Not Applicable

Rated Program

Outcomes and Cost

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.

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).

We estimate the number of person-years of clean water the nonprofit provides by comparing the person-years actually achieved to the person-years that would have been achieved even in the absence of the nonprofit (the “counterfactual”). Some beneficiaries might have accessed clean water from other providers or on their own; these counterfactual successes must be netted out of the successes we observe. Otherwise, we would be attributing a change in a person’s life (gaining clean water) to the nonprofit when it would have happened anyway. Few nonprofits estimate the counterfactual themselves, so we construct our own counterfactual estimate based on research and publicly available data. We research the average rate with which clean water access is increasing year over year in that location, and assume that, if the nonprofit had not intervened, that trend would have continued.

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 Calculation

378,130 program costs + $0 partner costs + $0 beneficiary costs = $378,130 total costs

Impact and Determination

Unscored Information

Largest Programs

Start With One International Inc. reported its three largest programs on its FY 2020 Form 990 as:

$288,941

Spent in most recent FY

61%

Percent of program expenses

CLEAN WATER IS A KEY INITIATIVE OF HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS. DRINKING UNSAFE WATER IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO DISEASE & DEATH WITHIN KENYA. THROUGH A GRANT AGREEMENT, SWOI GRANTS FUNDS TO START WITH ONE K ... (More)

$55,874

Spent in most recent FY

11%

Percent of program expenses

EDUCATION - SWOI THROUGH A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH SWOK IS INVOLVED IN THE EDUCATIONAL SPONSORSHIP OF APPROXIMATELY 100 CHILDREN INCLUDING 30+ FORMER STREET BOYS. IN 2020, DUE TO COVID-19 AND SCHOOL SHUT ... (More)

$8,747

Spent in most recent FY

1%

Percent of program expenses

BUILDING PROJECTS - SWOI GRANTED FUNDS TO SWOK FOR BUILDING VARIOUS NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN KENYA. IN 2020, DUE TO COVID-19, THERE WAS A REDUCTION IN DONATIONS RECEIVED. AS A RESULT, ALL BUILD ... (More)

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