Lava Mae
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810832318
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Alameda, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158726950
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,138
- Expenses
- $48,065
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Nick Kozlak (Co-Chair)
- Fran Heller (Co-Chair)
- Janine Hunt (Director)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lava Mae is a nonprofit that teaches people around the world to bring mobile showers and other services that promote well-being to people experiencing homelessness. We provide 1:1 program consulting, free and fee-based in-depth training, do-it-yourself toolkits, and ongoing support to help people and organizations around the world launch and sustain LavaMae designed programs with our Radical Hospitality approach.We model these programswhich include mobile showers, Pop-Up Care Villages, and DIY handwashing stationswith our on-street services in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles that restores dignity, rekindles optimism, and fuels a sense of opportunity.
What it reported doing in 2023
Due to an unprecedented budget shortfall, LavaMaex ceased programs and operations during the 2nd quarter of 2023 and were able to finish winding down in May 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -180.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.