Sami Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333769254
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,559
- Expenses
- $135,740
- Assets
- $43,819
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rodney Liber (CEO)
- Carla Liber (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Rodney Liber (CEO)
- Carla Liber (Vice President)
- Ava Liber (Administrative Assistant)
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 SAMI Foundations core mission is to empower underserved youth nationwide by supplying art and music materials and assistance. This includes delivering resources to schools hospitals community centers shelters camps and various organizations catering to children. Through these collaborative efforts SAMI Foundation aims to foster creativity self-expression and emotional well-being in young individuals facing economic social or health-related challenges.
What it reported doing in 2025
In the last fiscal year our Foundation excelled by surpassing goals distributing 25,000 art items to children across the country through diverse channels. We enhanced our position as the main art provider for partner organizations like UCLA Health and KIPP Public Schools. Moreover we supplied art kits to disadvantaged students via community groups schools hospitals and other local organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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
SUPPORTED - 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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
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: 24.4%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.