BeyGOOD Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873502092
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3479528386
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,997,727
- Expenses
- $6,691,371
- Assets
- $39,774,695
- Liabilities
- $473,039
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHERYL ALSTON JOINED SEPTEMBER 2025 (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LASAUNDA TATE LEFT SEPTEMBER 2025 (COO): $231,078 total reported compensation
- SAMANTHA FELD LEFT NOVEMBER 2025 (DIRECTOR OF MARKETING): $171,448 total reported compensation
- JANNA PERRY (BOARD LIAISON): $133,443 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is our legacy. To date, BeyGOOD has helped build a more equitable future by funding innovative programs that serve marginalized and under-resourced youth. Alongside educational scholarships, entrepreneurial grants, and community response efforts, this work has expanded globally. BeyGOOD continues to act as a bridge, expanding access to resources and opportunities that empower young people to create, express themselves, and shape their futures.
What it reported doing in 2025
Charitable giving program serving educational purposes and those in need or in distress.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 77% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -33.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.94; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -82.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $231K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 56 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 51 filed related-organization links
- 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 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.