Dignifi

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333528607
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
5107747629
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Utilities

Reported finances

Revenue
$500,000
Expenses
$474,457
Assets
$33,063
Liabilities
$7,520

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kuk Kim (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kuk Kim (CEO): $100,050 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dignifis mission is to improve reentry outcomes for individuals returning from incarceration by building technology infrastructure that helps people access critical services and helps systems understand what works. The organization develops and operates an AI-powered Reentry Navigator that provides step-by-step guidance to individuals seeking services such as identification benefits housing employment and healthcare. Dignifi also builds tools that support service providers in coordinating care and tracking client progress and a data platform that aggregates anonymized outcome-focused data to help governments and funders evaluate service effectiveness and make evidence-based decisions. Through this work Dignifi seeks to reduce barriers to reintegration improve service coordination and advance more effective data-informed public investment in reentry services.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the reporting year Dignifi developed and piloted a reentry navigation program designed to support individuals returning from incarceration. The program focuses on helping participants understand and access essential reentry services including identification documents public benefits housing employment and healthcare. The organization conducted direct user testing with individuals impacted by incarceration to better understand barriers to service access and refine guidance provided through the program. Dignifi curated and verified information about community-based service providers and eligibility requirements to reduce misinformation and improve successful referrals. In support of this program Dignifi also developed foundational data and tracking systems to document service usage time to access resources and participant feedback. These activities are intended to improve coordination among reentry services and support better outcomes for individuals during the critical post-release period.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.3% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $351K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.