One in a Billion Productions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821286728
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6178641016
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,381
- Expenses
- $34,177
- Assets
- $45,010
- Liabilities
- $191
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MABLE CHAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MABLE CHAN (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN LITWINOWICH (TREASURER)
- KENNETH C FROEWISS (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
One in a billion believes in the positive impact of a culturally and diverse community of story tellers and audiences. We believe in the power of storytelling to address xenophobia and racism and to deepen understanding between asians and americans for the greater good.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program services include the production of a website with a podcast, blogs, and video, as well as a regular community gathering, storytelling event, and personal/professional development workshops online and offline.we also publish a monthly enewsletter.our website attracts a monthly average of 1000 visitors, more than 50% are returnees.our podcast listenership totals more than 3200 downloads. Our enewsletters have more than 1200 subscribers. Our community gathering and educational events ranging from 10 to 50 people over the past three years.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.9%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 27
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: 3.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.9% of revenue deployed · 26.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.