Copper Gumbo Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831392427
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3103461146
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Visual Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$77,555
Expenses
$79,939
Assets
$75,078
Liabilities
$2,444

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEIDRE L GREENE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DEIDRE L GREENE (PRESIDENT)
  • RIKAYAH BENOIT (SECRETARY)
  • AMELIA SUAREZ (TREASURER)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The copper gumbo foundation strives to mentor and teach industrial design jewelry making, metal working, textile construction, ceramics, arts and crafts to youth and adults. Instruction is provided through the lens of a culturally responsive approach to the arts. The program is designed to balance the lack of opportunity that may have eluded students from achieving their highest potential that supports their well-being and mental health.

What it reported doing in 2025

Copper gumbo hosts school and community educational art events. Events are designed to benefit the community by uplifting the youth, keeping them gainfully engaged, and prividing a fun, prideful and exciting pathways to entrepreneurship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -44.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -18.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.