Other Worlds Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364645462
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6505200042
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123
- Expenses
- $9,819
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gustavo Castro (President)
People named in this filing
- Beverly Bell (Director)
- Gustavo Castro (President)
- Tory Field (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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Other Worlds is a noprofit corporation formed exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. More specifically, Other Worlds creates educational materials that are free for public use regarding topics about international social and economic issues that affect food and agriculture, development, human rights, women's rights and disaster response. The educational material is created from Other World's own research, analysis, experience and innovations from coutries around the world. The materials are prepared and distributed in the United States primarily via the Internet and in the form of reports and booklets. Other Worlds also engages in charitable activities to financially support organizations that help improve social and econolmic conditions relating to the topics in which Other Worlds educates.
What it reported doing in 2018
In 2018 the organization discharged administrative duties and programs. The organization archived stories and reports from work on their main programs, which were ended. Stories and reports regarded their prior work in the following areas: * Harvesting Justice, a program that helped promote and defend land, water, small scale and ecological agriculture, & food sovereignty * Another Haiti is Possible, a program that promoted Haitian citizens' ability to engage in their country's post-earthquake reconstruction and future, and generated support for grassroots-led initiatives and fostered a better international understanding of Haiti.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7,882.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -42.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2018
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.