Plant-Based Life Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611991545
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Davis, CA, USA
Phone
5302315505
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Reported finances

Revenue
$52,223
Expenses
$65,589
Assets
$9,154
Liabilities
$60,265

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rosane Oliveira (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Rosane Oliveira (President & CEO)
  • Cheryl Carter Kirk (Director)
  • Michael Fredrick Roizen (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the Plant-Based Foundation is to educate and empower people to live happier and healthier lives through positive habitat change and the adoption of plant-based nutrition.

What it reported doing in 2024

Taught 50+ students in Life Lab 360, the foundation's 12-month mentorship program that helps individuals develop new health-promoting habits, especially related to plant-based nutrition -- this included (1a) a monthly evidence-based class, (1b) and a 9-week intensive course called Design Your Life; Taught 60+ students a 5-week evidence-based class on plant-based nutrition offered through Stanford's Continuing Education program (Winter and Summer quarters); Taught 20 first-year medical students a 120-hour, 4-week summer elective course on lifestyle medicine with a special focus on plant-based nutrition (modules available to Life Lab 360 students were offered to medical students for free); Qualified for a $20,000 grant from the Craigslist Charitable Fund; Started a quantified-self twin experiement to look into direct-to-consumer omics tools to track lifestyle-driven improvements in metabolic and longevity biomarkers in response to lifestyle changes; Changed the technical tools used to operate the foundation and deliver its programs -- the changes included a new learning management system platform, a new email marketing tool, and a new payment processor system; all implemented to increase efficiency and decrease operational costs.

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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -25.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.58; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -32.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.