Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
301005887
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
5102053499
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$156,064
Expenses
$168,600
Assets
$31,741
Liabilities
$326

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Frances Auntie Moore (President)
  • Katherine Campbell (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Frances Auntie Moore (President)
  • Ana Sofia Warda (Treasurer)
  • Alexander Isky Salvador (Member at Large)

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

Oakland Communities for Equity & Justice (OCUEJ)s Self-Help Hunger Program (SHHP) connects the dots between food waste, food justice, nutritional support and food industry-related employment/business opportunities for those experiencing skyrocketing rates of homelessness and displacement-vulnerability.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Self-Help Hunger Nutritional Support Program (SHHP) serves over 700 unduplicated individuals with 200 points-of-service on a monthly basis. Annual turnover on unduplicated individuals approaches 20%.Four days weekly, our Free Food Pantry at Oaklands Jasper Driver Plaza City Park offers fresh produce and non-perishable foods, augmented by varying amounts of surplus pre-cooked foods rescued from restaurants and other nutritional support programs. During 2025, the Self Help Hunger Program rescued 282597 lbs from waste. The food (fresh produce and pre-cooked foods) were served through our program or shared with one of our 6 partnering programs offering free produce/meals.The program is operated by stipend workers who benefit from job training and reentry into society after incarceration, homelessness and addiction treatment.Our Cooks For Food Justice Project provides just over 125 nutritious, culturally-appropriate prepared meals made with ingredients diverted from the waste stream weekly.OCUEJ also organizes several events to support the Black community of Oakland and South Berkeley. The events present relevant cultural programming as well as bringing together resources for struggling families. Self Help Hunger program also sponsors the Dover park Garden project in North Oakland, The Dargahrden Food Projects (Souper Saucer), as well as tranquilityRx and The Healing Place program starting this yearThe Dargahrden Food Projects offers free soups to over 400 people weekly. Ingredients are provided through Self Help Hunger Program. tranquilityRx offers free massages and anti trauma touch therapy for free to underserved communities, and veterans.The Healing Place offers animal therapy to people affected by trauma. And organizes petting zoos for events directed towards underserved communities.We also provide two public toilets for the North Oakland community (one in Dover Park, one in Jasper P Driver Plaza).Additional services: housing referrals, legal support, job preparedness and training.

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
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. 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: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.5%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 44%; rating input score 44

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.5% of revenue deployed · 44% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 48/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.