Ohba - Organic Educators
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453631386
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,133
- Expenses
- $158,163
- Assets
- $59,704
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL SERANT (PRESIDENT)
- VICTORIA VELARDE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL SERANT (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT RANDALL (TREASURER)
- SARA WISSINGER (MARKETING DIRECTOR)
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
Organic health education
What it reported doing in 2024
Ohba palooza was an education event where well known speakers were brought in to educate attendees on the benefits of to the earth of organics
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 35%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45% of revenue deployed · 35% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 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 45/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.