Chooda
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454441487
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3606352324
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $189,654
- Expenses
- $210,069
- Assets
- $50,233
- Liabilities
- $520
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Benjamin Shasby (President)
- Pete Lester (Vice President)
- Peta Sheridan (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Benjamin Shasby (President)
- Pete Lester (Vice President)
- Melanie Wise (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Charitable giving awareness events globally.
What it reported doing in 2018
Bike Zambia 2018-Bike Zambia is a fundraising awareness raising event that consists of charitable giving to foreign charitable causes while supporting those in need helping them achieve a better quality of life 2000 people benefited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.7% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.