Shep-ty Embrace Game Changer

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731687650
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Inglewood, CA, USA
Phone
2132671840
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$134,297
Expenses
$166,632
Assets
$10,375
Liabilities
$18,723

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • SEAN P SHEPPARD (Executive Dir.)
  • DR AARON BRUCE (Chairman)
  • EDWIN CRUZ (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

Embrace utilizes community service to create environments that allow people from all walks of life to spend quality time together working toward a common cause. The organization is built on the philosophy that serving communities in need brings people together

What it reported doing in 2025

Game changer program is an experiemtial learning module rooted in behavioral psychology that utilizes sporting events to create a safe place for moderated communication between law enforcement and civilian members of the community. The ultimate goals for game changer is for participants to become better educated about one another, leading to changes in perception and behavior. Leading to a change in outcomes.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -24.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.8; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.