Diaspora Groceries Cares
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991672210
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3106960477
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,569
- Expenses
- $73,844
- Assets
- $22,725
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richea Jones (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Tiffany Haddish (CFO)
- Richea Jones (CEO)
- Marva Smith (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To strengthen communities by expanding equitable access to healthy food, creating economic opportunity, supporting entrepreneurship and supplier diversity, and fostering collaborative community development that promotes long-term health, resilience, and prosperity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Diaspora Groceries Cares advanced its charitable mission by expanding access to healthy food, promoting supplier diversity, and creating economic opportunities in underserved communities. During 2025, the organization convened entrepreneurs, community leaders, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporate partners through the Diaspora Supplier Diversity & Innovation Summit, educational workshops, and community engagement activities. DGC provided group workshops and one-on-one mentoring to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofit leaders in business development, supplier readiness, funding opportunities, and organizational capacity building. The organization also supported charitable food access initiatives through community partnerships and healthy food distribution while strengthening community collaboration and organizational capacity to sustain long-term impact.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.