Goabove Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853296750
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Palmdale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6614924234
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,242
- Expenses
- $60,031
- Assets
- $13,306
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- JOSHUA GINSBERG (BOARD PRESID)
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
Education, training, and internship
What it reported doing in 2025
Volunteers - manny meraz and malachi shellmire-sherrills volunteered their time for the meals in motion workshop at ccav that goabove filmed as a collaborative in-kind service to meals in motion for a potential partnership in meals in motion's favor for a potential partnership with ccav. From it, we were able to use the footage on our social media page and in our clips for community collaboration. Organization mission statement "to transform lives by equipping underserved populations with education, hands-on experience, industry connections, and support needed to achieve career success, economic mobility, and generational prosperity." program accomplishments in 2025, goabove acquired three new community partnerships that introduced 32 students from empower generations, 13 clients from penny lane - av, and 26 clients from antelope valley youth center (formerly asian youth center, aka ayc) to goabove's media & technology for podcasting and music production . From these added community partnerships, goabove enrolled 12 participants from ayc into its pilot internship program that was launched the fall of 2025 (october - december 2025) and started it first year cohort on september 2025 with empower generations' mic'd up program collaboration with a total of 22 enrolled students. While penny lane's collaboration did not produce any program participants, it did allow for goabove to present the organization on a regular monthly basis from september to december 2025 at penny lane and engage with its participants. An added bonus to our ccav partnership in 2025 was goabove's ability to present its program opportunities to their participants on a monthly basis at the drop in center from september to december as well to encourage the increase in attendance and participation to the contracted ccav media & technology program for podcasting and music production held on thursdays and fridays at the goabove studio. Go above completed its year 2 contract and entered into the final year 3 contract with ccav for media & technology in podcasting and music production for the funded amity grant. Goabove was able to successfully service the ccav contract and "go above and beyond" meeting its deliverables of 15 new ccav program participants per cohort by referring 8 participants on its own to ccav to participate in the program for cohort 2 and 3.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th 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: 77.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 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
- 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: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.