Goonj Foundation
Overview
Mission
Create support and awareness for equitable ecosystems that foster dignity, strength, and sustenance between resource-rich and resource-poor communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Goonj Foundation built and expanded its CRM, continued to update its website, and worked to grow a community of supporters. We conducted various awareness-building activities, including participating in and organizing events on the sidelines of key conferences. We also continued engagements with US universities to help them understand our philosophy and undertake research on how this approach can improve social impact outcomes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882374888
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Headquarters
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2066177030
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
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: 4.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -22.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.4% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $125K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: FY2025.