Fuel For Change
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274159852
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2018
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157527488
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,644
- Expenses
- $4,637
- Assets
- $27,480
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bobak Bakhtiari (President & CEO)
- Alexander Nosik (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bobak Bakhtiari (President & CEO)
- Alexander Nosik (Vice President)
- Sari Stenfurs (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fuel For Change (FFC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that makes alliances with retail businesses and secures monthly funds for a variety of significant humanitarian projects. Our goal is to help businesses effectively focus their philanthropy, to instill confidence in their giving, and become a part of lasting change.
What it reported doing in 2018
Fuel for Chage FFC is a non-profit volunteer organization with a mission to promote humanitarianism by creatig Communities of Giving. FFC is focused on creating networks to better meet donors' and beneficiaries' needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.2%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 68.3%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.93; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -153.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -62.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 129.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 27.2% of revenue deployed · 68.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2017 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.