Courage of Care

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475645962
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
9177709370
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,014
Expenses
$61,952
Assets
$11,000
Liabilities
$2,554

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • BROOKE DODSON-LAVELLE (Treasurer)
  • MAHA EL SHEIKH (Chairman)
  • LESLIE LANGBERT (MEMBER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower both personal and social transformation by providing deep contemplative training coupled with powerful tools for systemic change. The organization supports individuals, organizations and communities in realizing a more courageous, caring and equitable world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Recruited and trained ~200 people in our advanced training programs, including our relational facilitators program for movement leaders, social service professionals, organizers and activists, our 9th annual summer intensive, and one relational facilitation symposia for professionals interested in the art of building belonging, compassion and care in organizations and movement spaces.offered public workshops and online courses for social service professionals, contemplative practitioners and organizers that served over 200 people.became the home of the arrow journal and released two special issues along with a new podcast, precisely, and public seminars related to themes of the journal

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% 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

SUPPORTED - 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: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.