One with the Ocean Formerly SMOG
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842273756
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3234009839
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,162
- Expenses
- $138,748
- Assets
- $7,340
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Danielle Dattilio (President)
People named in this filing
- Angela Lee (Executive Dir.)
- West Burghardt (Treasurer)
- Zoe Brown (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
Improving human's relationship with the ocean. We offer weekly beach cleanups, coached open water swims and free ocean education and swim lessons to underserved communities
What it reported doing in 2024
We foster equitable access to the ocean through immersive experiences like free swim and surf lessons, and environmental education programs for underserved communities as well as weekly open-water swims to ensure safety in the water.
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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -32.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $119K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.