Getaway Growth
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862214003
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3232060819
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,956
- Expenses
- $72,572
- Assets
- $5,245
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jung Min Jackson (President)
- Nicole Zamignani (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Jung Min Jackson (President)
- Nicole Zamignani (Executive Director)
- Monica Franco (Marketing Director)
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
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected and we experience an era of unprecedented world challenges, underserved communities need help overcoming steep barriers to enriching learning opportunities such as international educational travel. Many cannot afford travel costs, unpaid internships, or passport and visa expenses. These disparities reinforce inequities in professional networks, workforce preparedness, and cross-cultural fluency. Without intervention, inequitable access to global exposure perpetuates cycles of limited opportunity. Getaway Growth addresses this gap by providing fully funded, structured, and ethically designed global immersion programs for youth ages 15-24 from historically under-resourced communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Getaway Growth's flagship program additionally focuses on hands-on service learning and community engagement, allowing students to contribute to sustainable local initiatives while learning alongside community partners. Students completed 20 hours of service learning and community impact activities, including environmental conservation efforts, cultural exchange projects, and collaborations with organizations such as A Rocha Kenya and local community groups. Activities included beach cleanups, conservation education, and traditional skill-building exchanges, fostering mutual learning between students and host communities. Through this program, participants developed a deeper understanding of global challenges and their role in addressing them. Notably, 100% of students reported increased empathy and awareness of diverse perspectives following participation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 62% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 57.7%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -59.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.9% of revenue deployed · 57.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.