Sangha Unity Network

Legal name: Sangha Unity Network Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272875948
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Winder, GA, USA
Phone
(770) 849-8716
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Personal Social Services
Affiliation
Buddhism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$434,948
Expenses
$343,261
Assets
$182,043
Liabilities
$13,417

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michelle Schwartz (CEO/CFO/SEC)

People named in this filing

  • Michelle Schwartz (CEO/CFO/SEC)
  • Belinda Harris (Board Member)
  • Jackie McNair (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to educate, build connections, promote autonomy, and increase opportunities for all people to be accepted as valued, contributing members in our communities. Individual and collective growth and support Belonging and connection Co-creation and creativity. This interactive gathering can be designed for a one or two-day in-person retreat. This retreat will be co-designed with you (leadership from the organization) to support and create a culture that aligns with your organization's mission, vision, and values. We believe that organizations are not a structure - rather a living community where all staff members are living assets. We believe that values and cultures are important, especially during this time of change. We believe the pandemic greatly impacted organizations and will help identify what is needed to adapt and respond to a new organizational culture and...

What it reported doing in 2024

Learning Journey - Sangha Unity Network, with funding from The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) continued facilitating the Learning Journey in 2024. This Learning Journey is designed for DBHDD Medicaid waiver provider agencies who seek to further commit to a foundation of supporting self-advocates and person-centered practices. It is a 8-month commitment that offers an opportunity for personal growth for each individual participant and collective discovery for provider organizations. In total, 14 service provider agencies have participated in this work since the project's foundation. In 2024, SUN recruited and supported six new agencies to participate in the Learning Journey.Learning Journey held sessions to enhance skillsets and create person centered organizations via contribution, choice and valued social roles, while imagining what more is possible. This included facilitating Mentor Sessions to support the organization's identified focus areas within enhancing, creating and revising areas within the agency to shift service delivery. In addition, Community Networking Sessions supported the development of a Community of Practice for participating organizations across the state of Georgia. Following the completion of each Learning Journey SUN hosts a Wisdom of Leadership retreat which includes the provider community of practice, self advocates from Uniting for Change and representation from state policymakers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $256K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $111K reported
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.