East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943249753
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5105405296
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,159,169
- Expenses
- $3,562,897
- Assets
- $5,484,872
- Liabilities
- $663,543
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- AMANDA BHUKET (CO CHAIR)
- REENA ARYA (BOARD MEMBER)
- ANGELICA TRIPP (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ebsc provides legal services, community organizing, and transformative education to support low-income immigrants and people fleeing violence and persecution.
What it reported doing in 2024
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM (COA). The program supports low-income immigrants to understand their rights, gain skills, work together, and exercise their power to improve systems and policies. The program provides referrals for community college enrollment, job training, legal questions that are not related to the immigration case, and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. It also provides free classes to help prepare citizenship exam and communication workshops to develop their leadership skills and gain a deeper understanding of their rights and benefits etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd 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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.