Project Bento
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851753696
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Woodside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155725502
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $40,575
- Assets
- $68,961
- Liabilities
- $24,204
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Samir Arora (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Samir Arora (President and Director)
- Derek Evans (Director and Seretary)
- Marcus Samueslsson (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project Bento was founded by Marcus Samuelsson, Derek Evans and concerned chefs, owners, and celebrities with Samir Arora and his Sage Plus team to help create a coordinated resource to bring together the nationwide efforts of the charities organizations and fundraisers which are supporting impacted businesses to help feed people urgently in need of food and provide relief to the families employees and businesses thrown in crisis now and through recovery.
What it reported doing in 2022
No program for the year, just normal operating expenses
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- 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.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.