International Association for Peace

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943391407
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020
Location
Hayward, CA, USA
Phone
5103140533
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$4
Expenses
$51,311
Assets
$16,107
Liabilities
$873

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MORIO TATENO (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • MORIO TATENO (President): $33,432 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build a world of culture and peace by character-based education, successful marriage and family, and service for public.

What it reported doing in 2020

The International Association for Peace (hereinafter referred to as the IAP) held one joint online seminar co-sponsored with World Tong-Il Moo-Do Federation (hereinafter refereed as WTMF), a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, during the fiscal year of 2020. WTMF is organized to achieve world peace by promoting basic core values learned from practicing various traditional martial arts. WTMF and IAP have been collaborating to promote world peace on many occasions in recent years. Our last fiscal year which ended on June 30, 2021 was unprecedented. Due to COVID-19 pandemic and all the associated restrictions came together with it, we were unable to conduct any in-person events. We invited 45 participants from across the country to the online event held on March 27, 2021. Most of them were associates of WTMF. At the seminar, we held a few presentations on the need of moral education and had discussion sessions over the contents. As was in 2020, Master Thomas Sagayo and Master Geoffrey Quilates, both the Bay Area instructors of WTMF were the main presenters of the event. They have been regular volunteers for the IAP events last few years. Their frontline experience with young people as veteran martial art instructors made their presentations more appealing to the audience. They emphasized the importance of moral education and explained how practice of various martial arts had been contributing to promotion of basic moral values for many centuries. This time they taught not only the importance of building a better family and making it a building block of the world peace. They explained that values learnt from practicing martial arts contributes creating a better family but also how we can combat challenges of COVID-19 crisis with mental and physical benefits of practicing martial arts. They emphasized the importance of setting a good example of healthy life, both mentally and physically, and contribute to fighting the pandemic. It is one way we can return our gratitude to the society. The contents of the seminar were very well taken by the participants. They really appreciated the relevance of the contents. They also appreciated collaboration of IAP and WTMF in trying to achieve the same goal, world peace, though their approach is different.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,282,675%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 65.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -38% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2020
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.