Oakland Roots & Soul Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883527587
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
5103184820
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Service Organizations and Activities

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,577
Expenses
$129,538
Assets
$155,568
Liabilities
$575

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MIKE GEDDES (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MILES MAKDISI (TREASURER)
  • MIKE GEDDES (PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHANIE HESS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Health and wellbeing (see schedule o for full mission)

What it reported doing in 2024

Safe places to play | orasf collaborates with local government, school systems, nonprofits and philanthropic partners to create new, safe places to play for oakland and east bay youth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96

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: 23.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 182.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 44% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.