Every Day Action Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851609710
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3239372010
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $401,845
- Expenses
- $342,693
- Assets
- $154,717
- Liabilities
- $8,067
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HILLARY COHEN (CEO/CO-FOUNDER)
- BARRETT FOA (Vice President)
- ELANA UMMEL (President)
People named in this filing
- HILLARY COHEN (CEO/CO-FOUNDER)
- SAMANTHA LUU (COO/CO-FOUNDER)
- BARRETT FOA (Vice President)
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
Our primary purpose is to help solve the hunger crisis in los angeles. We reallocate goods that are otherwise going to be thrown out directly to someone in need. We work primarily with film and tv sets; picking up their gourmet excess meals and distributing them to those going without. We also distribute around 1,000 kits to the unhoused a year and host a yearly thanksgiving food event; feeding hundreds. We aim to help feed as many in need as we can daily. We service shelters, community fridges, and encampments by repurposing delicious meals that otherwise would contribute to oour landfills.
What it reported doing in 2024
We reallocate goods that are otherwise going to be thrown out directly to someone in need. We work primarily with film and tv sets; picking up their gourmet excess meals and distributing them to those going without. We also distribute around 1,000 kits to the unhoused a year and host a yearly thanksgiving food event; feeding hundreds. We aim to help feed as many in need as we can daily. We service shelters, community fridges, and encampments by repurposing delicious meals that otherwise would contribute to oour landfills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 61% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 47.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $243K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.