Sabah Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161571243
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7163629600
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,625
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $375,799
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHEILA O'BRIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (FINANC)
Highest reported compensation
- SHEILA O'BRIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (FINANC): $107,308 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support the activites and purpose of sabah, inc.
What it reported doing in 2024
To raise funds to support the skating association for the blind and handicapped, inc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.