Grass Roots Events Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953616924
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Imperial Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4068802667
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,802
- Expenses
- $160,220
- Assets
- $200,563
- Liabilities
- $1,096
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CONCEPCION MARTINEZ VALDES (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHERINE KELLER (BOARD TREASURER): $18,942 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
School for chiapas supports the efforts of autonomous mayan communities of chiapas, mexico to provide a just and dignified education for their children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education for solidarity and support for autonomy - our work in 2025 encompasses 3 principal areas: community health education and promotion, community literacy and autonomous education, and local and international collaborations in outreach and dissemination around social movements, political context and human rights. Our work as educators, facilitators and organizers is dynamic and involves multiple populations --communities who are organizing themselves and building autonomous systems of health, education, and production (this could be groups of youth, of fathers or of women); internationals visiting chiapas who seek to immerse themselves in an education unique to the territory; and those at a distance who are uncovering the knowledge and experience that continues to arise from the indigenous maya struggles for justice and dignity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 46% for direct work, and 54% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 54
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $125.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $19K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.