Sebastopol World Friends
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680130494
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Sebastopol, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7078238959
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Cultural Exchange
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,460
- Expenses
- $93,456
- Assets
- $45,474
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Beth Lamb (President)
People named in this filing
- Beth Lamb (President)
- Patricia Deignan (1st Vice Chair)
- Patrick Slayter (2nd Vice Chair)
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
Sebastopol World Friends is a City of Sebastopol commissioned non-profit service group which is totally volunteer driven. Our mission is to link Sebastopol with its sister cities through a variety of educational and cultural programs and to coordinate exchanges which will promote lasting friendships.Sebastopol World Friends offers a changing array of programs connected to our two sister cities Takeo, Japan (formerly Yamauchi), and Chyhyryn, Ukraine. We also engage with our community through a variety of events and cultural activities, and offer opportunities to host visitors and travel to our sister cities. We are a member of Sister Cities International.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sister City Dormitory Reconstruction Project-Sebastopol World Friends collects donations whlch are forwarded to a non-profit in Ukraine for reconstruction of a dormitory to house_people displaced by the war.The building has been rendered habitable for 120 people and eventually will house an additional 120 people.Sister City Student Exchange Program-Sebastopol World_Friends and its Japanese counterpart, Takeo World Friends exchange groups of 16-20 middle school_students for 10 days. Expenses cover travel, minimal administrative costs, and insurance.Open World- Sebastopol World Friends is a grant recipient from the U.S. Congressional Office for International Leadership to host a delegation of six Ukrainian professionals to study principles of open governance and specific human service topics. Homestays with local families result in lasting relationships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.