O Miami Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

O, miami presented its 14th annual poetry festival, featuring 60 projects and events across miami-dade and south Florida. The festival launched with the debut of universe, a five-minute original planetarium feature presented at the phillip and patricia frost museum of science nightlab, which highlights south Florida student poetry and navigates the viewer through the coral reefs to the cosmos reaching an audience of approximately 30,000 museum attendees festival activities engaged 6,847 attendees, collected 1,132 poems onsite, and received more than 2,200 zipode submissions through a partnership with wlrn public media. O, miami collaborated with 47 organizational and venue partners, distributed 1,000 tote bags featuring poetry by a miami elementary school studentadditional programming included onstage! Variety show at miami beach bandshell, highlighting o, miami's year-round education and community publishing initiatives; poetry, paperbacks, piraguas at roberto clemente park in partnership with bookleggers library, which generated 56 unique press mentions; and *in the belly of the bird / godmother, a collaborative poetry and dance performance presented with pioneer winter collective at the youngartsjewel box. The organization also offered 14 "check out a poet and "poems to order" activations at coral gables branch library.in 2025 o, miami released its 29th publication, literally everyone's invited, a poetry and photography anthology featuring nearly 500 south Florida creatives across four counties in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the zipode program. The publication debuted at miami book fair with a standing-room-only panel discussion.o, miami continued its education initiatives through sunroom and other poetry-in-schools programs, providing creative writing enrichment to k12 students across 28 classrooms in miami-dade county public schools. The organization also welcomed its fourth cohort of the greenhouse, a summer program, offering 12 weeks of mentorship and creative development opportunities. Additional educational programming included a two-week neurodiverse teacher training for teaching artists.o, miami collaborated on a back-to-school creative lab for today at apple in collaboration with abcs of miami artist westofchester. O, miami also partnered with born this way foundation to present poetry and co-host the miami-based event kindness in action. During the fiscal year, the organization introduced 56 new civic publishing works across miami-dade county, spanning neighborhoods including little river and miami shores, as well as public-facing installations and activations at aventura mall and iii points festival.o, miami additionally expanded its youth programming into boca raton through poetry in pajamas, presented at boca raton innovation campus for an audience of approximately 250 attendees. The program featured readings by 40 young poets and showcased work by 12 youth vendors. Ode to boca, a zipode inspired community call to action received over 900 submissions from boca raton residents and culminated in public art featured at mizner park, and two public libraries, and across numerous printed materials.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 64.6%; rating input score 65
• Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • 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: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings