Navigator Labs Fka Gooru
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273744004
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6503310219
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $314,793
- Expenses
- $158,139
- Assets
- $393,352
- Liabilities
- $161,650
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PRASAD RAM (CEO AND FOUNDER)
Highest reported compensation
- PRASAD RAM (CEO AND FOUNDER): $89,269 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are dedicated to building free and open technology and engaging a community of teachers, developers, and supporters to unleash personalized learning to educate all the students of the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Navigated learning" is an approach to learning that assures learning outcomes for all learners. Navigated learning addresses three central elements to assuring outcomes locate each learner's current knowledge and skills, curate learning activities. And close loop between science and practice to enable emergent solutions for every collaborator in their environments. Navigated learning makes it possible to personalize learning pathways, mediate learning journey with research backed suggestions of routes based on profile and reroutes based on performance, facilitate instructional practices where teachers can monitor learners' progress and differentiate instruction, and integrate communities of practice among learners and educators so they support each other by sharing their practices, content, and answering each other's questions. Gooru has developed a webbased application that provides a hybrid learning environment known as the "navigator". Navigator is open source under apche 2.0 and can be used for free as on www.gooru.org for free by individuals, learner, instructor and guardian. Gooru has established a "navigated learning collaborative (nlc)" to bring together international collaborators who want to innovate, validate and scale navigated learning to assure success to all learners. Its purpose is to connect k12 providers, higher education systems, consortiums, and institutions, professional societies and organizations of academic disciplines, corporations, and individuals to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experiences with navigated learning technologies. The goal of the nlc is to provide quality and appropriate learning with accelerated outcomes to millions of users in their environments. The collaborators include researchers, early childhood educators, schools, implementers, nonprofit organizations, industry associations, skill training providers and companies across geographies and disciplines. Users in their environments. The collaborators include researchers, early childhood educators, schools, implementers, nonprofit organizations, industry associations, skill training providers and companies across geographies and disciplines. Organizations, industry associations, skill training providers and companies across geographies and disciplines.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.9%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 49.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.49; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.9% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $104K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $160K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.