Ijoya
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994048946
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Redding, CA, United States
- Phone
- (530)510-8737
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,828
- Expenses
- $18,626
- Assets
- $602
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Damilola Afolabi (Director)
- Francisco Basurto (Interim Secretary)
- Jordan D'Meza (Board Member)
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
IJÓYÁ is a non-profit organization committed to promoting cultural diversity and unity through the universal language of dance. Our aim is to create a platform for people from all walks of life to come together and share their unique cultural heritage through dance. Our goal is to connect families and communities, creating a ripple effect of togetherness that spreads. This year the board voted to shift from a religious nonprofit to an arts and culture focus. IJÓYÁ operates as an arts and cultural nonprofit focused on dance education and multicultural programming. We request our NTEE classification be updated to A62 (Dance) or A20 (Arts Education).
What it reported doing in 2025
IJÓYÁ organized and hosted multicultural dance events that celebrate Afro-Latin and global dance traditions while creating opportunities for community members to connect through movement and music. Events included social dance nights, community performances, and cultural celebrations that were open to the public. These programs promoted cultural awareness, encouraged participation in the arts, and created inclusive spaces for people of different backgrounds to interact and build relationships through dance. These events served over 3,500 community members throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.7%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 50.8%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 47.7% of revenue deployed · 50.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.