Raffaella Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882003474
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Nordland, WA, USA
Phone
5096883764
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$188,144
Expenses
$146,638
Assets
$101,950
Liabilities
$123

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEVRA JARVIS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DEVRA JARVIS (PRESIDENT)
  • RAFFAELLA JARVIS (VICE PRESIDE)
  • LAURAJEAN LEWIS (TREASURER)

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

The raffaella foundation aims to foster diversity in urban societies and agricultural ecosystems. To do so, we will support and conduct research and operate platforms that disseminate in multiple languages on information on combatting local and global inequities. The foundation will identify ways to educate and support rural and urban societies to embrace the use of diverse ideas and practices, diverse production systems, diverse languages, cultures and ethnic groups, diverse gender identities, and diverse behaviors and norms, to enhance equity, solidarity, and well-being. To achieve this goal, the foundation will identify and facilitate relevant new and innovative partnerships among platforms, networks and organizations that strengthen societies capacity to embrace social and environmental diversity and to address some of the major local and global challenges of urban and rural societies.

What it reported doing in 2025

The corporation will apply the following principles in each of the program areas described below: 1) share educational materials in multiple languages to increase the knowledge and understanding of how diversity is an essential resource for sustainable development and wellbeing. 2) involve local communities, respect and strengthen the communities customary knowledge and language systems, and generate tools and findings on diversity that can be used by communities globally, in order to increase the community benefits from embracing social and environmental diversity. 3) integrate local, regional, and global issues to emphasize the common and shared responsibility to maintain and support diversity in both developing and developed countries. 4) present global and international trends, challenges, and opportunities for embracing the use of diverse ideas and practices, diverse production systems, diverse cultures, diverse gender identities, behaviors, and norms, including but not limited to supporting foreign organizations whose missions align with the corporations charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92

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: 22.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 72.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 61.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 74.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.