Learn with Aof Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 392324132
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082970204
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,000
- Expenses
- $600
- Assets
- $49,400
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH ROSS-RONCHI (PRESIDENT (CEO))
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH ROSS-RONCHI (PRESIDENT (CEO))
- DAVID COULTAS (DIRECTOR/TREASURER (CFO))
- VAKHTANG JANEZASHVILI (DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
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
To provide or sponsor educational programs and other opportunities focused on small businesses
What it reported doing in 2025
Planned educational programs for small businessesthe organization plans to develop and offer educational workshops focused on business planning, business financial literacy, business legal compliance, and digital marketing. These programs will further the organization's exempt educational purpose by equipping small business entrepreneurs with practical knowledge and tools necessary to succeed and contribute to economic development. The programs are expected to be delivered primarily by trained staff and guest instructors in California or online. Program implementation is planned to begin in q4 2025, with approximately 30 percent of organizational resources allocated to this activity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.2%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 98.8%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 82.33; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $600 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.