Karmic Action Retribution Management Agency

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831961921
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3233263226
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$156,876
Expenses
$164,304
Assets
$22,398
Liabilities
$59

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Johanna Iraheta (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Johanna Iraheta (CEO)
  • Woodsin Joseph-Sandberg (CFO)
  • Alicia Vargas (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

Karmic Action Retribution Management Agency (KARMA) is a community agency that promotes public empowerment through education. We aim to support grassroots organizations that focus on communities most affected by economic disparities, healthcare inequities and systemic inequality. KARMA programs include Bici Libre Bicycle Shop, which operates a bike repair program, a community tool library, a DIY volunteer membership program and provides support to organizations utilizing the bicycle for programming. KARMA Program RIM/L.A. Rooted, education rooted in community leadership, environmental stewardship and ancestral wisdom. L.A. Rooted programs consist of bike safety workshops, youth leadership education through bike and outdoor programming and community health engagements. Roots In Motion is a mental health services awareness and outreach. KARMA is the fiscal sponsors of School for Ecocene.

What it reported doing in 2025

Bici Libre offers bikes, accessories, repairs, safety equipment and classes to low income cyclists. Bici Libre is partnered with homeless services non-profits to provide bicycle repair to people struggling with housing insecurity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 60.4%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 60.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $99K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.