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Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 844649606
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location: Palm Springs, CA, USA
Phone: 9099971152
Rating: 87
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $875
Expenses: $9,538
Assets: $9,826
Liabilities: $7,000

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Jonathan Warner (President)
James Spee (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

Jonathan Warner (President)
James Spee (Executive Director)
Richard Moore (Treasurer)

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

Supporting startup founders with education and mentoring.

What it reported doing in 2025

Revise curriculum for Real Journey Academies charter school's two Entrepreneur High School to make it more accessible to English Language Learners and those with an 8th grade reading level.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 90
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 22
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 73.1%; rating input score 73

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -990.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -48.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -34.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.1% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
Schedules: 4 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
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: Operating margin scored 2/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.