Beyond Us & Them

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923866280
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
2133775747
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,078,649
Expenses
$320,735
Assets
$1,689,226
Liabilities
$931,312

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JARED SEIDE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • BRIAN BIERY (DIRECTOR)
  • DR KENDI GUANTAI (DIRECTOR)
  • ARTHUR HANKET (DIRECTOR)

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

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To offer programs and training that resource individuals and organizations in self-awareness, self-regulation, effective communication and to promote structures of belonging, utilizing council and other practices, to encourage social connection and wellbeing for system-impacted and other populations.

What it reported doing in 2023

Council for insight, compassion & resilience (cicr) is a six-month program designed for incarcerated participants that teaches the practice of council and its facilitation. Cicr includes elements of the foundations of council training offered by the organization, though tailored for use inside prison. After the initial 16-hour training workshop, participants follow exercises and activities provided in the course manual, exploring topics that unfold in a proscribed curricular evolution. They gather every week to discuss and practice council, facilitated by rotating members of the group. Council topics correspond to the material covered in the participant manual. The cicr program's pedagogy is based on mindfulness and restorative justice principles, focusing on taking responsibility for past behavior and the harm caused to victims, to others who have been impacted (friends, family, community) and to the harm passed down through generations. Council reentry program (crp) reduces recidivism through addressing the needs of formerly incarcerated individuals who return home and commit to successful reentry. Crp supports the needs of program participants with a customized approach that offers warm hand-off support services initiated during incarceration, and continues throughout the release and reintegration process with case management, ongoing council sessions for participants and their families, and advanced training in council facilitation for those who have found healing in this practice and want to carry it to their communities. Los angeles reentry collaborative (larc) is a multi-sector, community-driven collaborative that promotes the successful reentry of formerly incarcerated individuals through attending to theirhealth needs, as well as resourcing the reentry sector as a whole. Burnout is common amongst those working in the sector and we believe that a healthy reentry sector will be better equipped to serve returning individuals in achieving their reentry goals. Larc builds a multilayered collaborative approach to address the trauma, mental and behavioral health issues, violence, and economic disparities associated with returning from incarceration. This initiative helps enhance participants' health, increase social wellness, and prevent further violence and trauma in the community. Larc's quarterly events (one in-person, one virtual), digital newsletter, and online resources are utilized by thousands of representatives from hundreds of member organizations, including nonprofits, local government agencies, healthcare professionals, educators, legal experts, and many others invested in serving the reentry community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.3%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $67.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 70.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.27; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.3% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $241K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.