Social Justice Action Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813918474
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5036832148
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing Development, Construction, Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,224
Expenses
$49,232
Assets
$380,415
Liabilities
$328,952

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Helia Rasti (President)

People named in this filing

  • Stephanie Rio Collier (Secretary Treasurer)
  • Helia Rasti (President)
  • Paul Messersmith-Glavin (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Supporting community organizing by increasing access to grassroots education, cultural activities, low-income housing, and interconnection among marginalized communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community kitchen: Our longterm partnership with Symbiosis wrapped up at the end of the year, but during 2024 it supported a dozen volunteers in preparing and distributing food and basic hygiene needs to dozens of unhoused neighbors each week. In addirion, SJAC's kitchen continued to be used by various community organizations to incubate food-based services and offer trainings and events that required used of our boiling and baking capacity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -185.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.73; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.86; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -38.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.