Orka

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
393357985
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Shoreview, MN, USA
Phone
6512610942
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Management & Technical Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$75,000
Expenses
$17,720
Assets
$57,280
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Tim Leake (Director)
  • Richard Mack (Director)
  • Chris Jones (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

Orka's purpose is to strengthen small nonprofit organizations by providing facilitation, leadership support, and practical problem-solving services that help them identify priorities, clarify next steps, and increase their capacity to carry out their charitable missions. Orka primarily serves nonprofits that need these services but may not have the financial resources to access traditional consulting support.

What it reported doing in 2025

Orka was formed in mid-October, so direct program activity was limited during the year. During this initial startup period, Orka focused on establishing the administrative systems, program materials, outreach processes, and communication resources needed to carry out its exempt purpose. This included developing facilitation and leadership-support materials, creating educational video content, and beginning outreach to small nonprofit organizations that may benefit from Orka's services. These activities helped prepare Orka to provide facilitation, problem-solving, and capacity-building support to small nonprofits in the following year, particularly organizations that need these services but lack the financial resources to access traditional consulting support.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 76.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.23; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.