Gente Buena Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933700121
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Studio City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3102797370
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,236
- Expenses
- $58,425
- Assets
- $19,563
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashley Cooper (President)
People named in this filing
- Ashley Cooper (President)
- Stephanie Perea (Secretary)
- Jaslin Levy (CFO)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Gente Buena Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that both the land and people of Jalisco, Mexico benefit from the prosperity of the tequila industry. We actively foster partnerships and make community-informed investments to champion sustainable growth and shared wealth.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Gente Buena Foundation is dedicated to serving the individuals, families, communities, and the very land intimately involved in the entire lifecycle of tequila from the cultivation and harvest to production, distillation, and distribution. Our primary focus extends to the vibrant state of Jalisco, Mexico, where this cherished spirit has deep roots
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 25; 25th 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: 49.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 53.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 108.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.