Liberation Atlanta Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880574005
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
5022642952
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,660
Expenses
$104,977
Assets
$27,854
Liabilities
$15,554

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Natalie Villasana (President)

People named in this filing

  • Natalie Villasana (President)
  • Estevan Hernandez (CFO)
  • Zachary Norton (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

Liberation Atlanta Inc seeks to promote a cooperative and just society based on democratic principles that prioritizes human need over individual accumulation of wealth. As an organization dedicated to social welfare it serves the general public in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. Liberation Atlanta Inc organizes with community stakeholders in the city of Atlanta and the surrounding area to educate and advocate for policies and structures that serve the needs of all rather than just the elite. Such policies will include seeking peace and ending militarism the promotion of social racial gender and economic justice; and the creation of equity in areas of life including housing health and education.

What it reported doing in 2025

Black History Advocacy: Hosted and participated in forums festivals and film screenings that brought attention to and advocated for the proliferation of Black History its proponents and historical figures that influenced American history. 500 participants engaged from across Metro Atlanta.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% 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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 9
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 9.4%; rating input score 9
  • Program expense ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 9

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 9.4% of revenue deployed · 8.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.