Eat Learn Play Foundation

What it reported doing in 2024

Eat. Learn. Play. Is dedicated to transforming the educational experience for a generation of oakland students. In collaboration with our community, partners, and donors, we provide essential resources, support, and opportunities that empower children and schools to thrivehelping them unlock their full potential both academically and in their broader lives, at home and within the community. During 2024, eat. Learn. Play. Achieved its mission through grants and programs that serve oakland youth in the areas of nutrition, literacy, and play. To ensure all ousd students are provided the nutritious food they need to thrive, elp provided 16,310 nutritious meals and 44,576 pounds of fresh produce to food-insecure children and their families through our eat. Learn. Play. Bus and partnership with the alameda county community food bank and community kitchens.to provide students with the supports the need to become stronger readers, we provided $3 million in funding for high-impact literacy tutoring for 1,911 students at 33 elementary schools and external evaluation. To support student access to quality books, we distributed over 165,000 childrens books in oakland through the eat. Learn. Play. Bus, little town libraries, book fairs, and school grants which includes an elementary school library we also renovated.to give students access to great schoolyards and opportunities to be active and participate in youth sports, we granted $5 million for 8 elementary schoolyards and 6 middle school and high school gym rennovations. During 2024, we supported oakland unified school district student well-being through access to nutritious meals, high-dosage tutoring, quality reading materials, excellent school facilities, and opportunities to play and be active. Eat. Learn. Play. Significantly expanded its direct programs that directly benefit the low-income children and families of oakland. Through our mobile resource center and partnership with alameda county community food bank, we hosted 37 distribution events at elementary schools and community events where we distributed books and food to 11,345 students.high-dosage tutoring was also expanded to 1,911 students at 33 elementary schools and a pilot for library renovations was completed. We also planted 29 of our little town library book-sharing units, which, alongside community partners, distributed over 14,000 culturally appropriate books. Including book grants, donations, and holiday giveaways, we've donated over 165,000 books in 2024.eat. Learn. Play. Celebrated the spirit of oakland by bringing unforgettable experiences to kids from a kid's fun run at the oakland marathon where 1000 kids participated for free to our annual christmas with the currys event, which provided gifts and resources to 1100 oakland students and their families. Together with sponsors and community partners, we provided gifts, books, food, and other resources totaling more than $500,000.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $19.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings