The Niles Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842828959
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Culver City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3108813640
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,970
- Expenses
- $245,248
- Assets
- $490,243
- Liabilities
- $168,439
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHANTE WALKER (PRESIDENT)
- WSHANA MOSS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JAKOBI EWART (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SHANTE WALKER (PRESIDENT)
- WSHANA MOSS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JAKOBI EWART (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
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
The niles foundation is a 501c3 organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable historically disinvested and low income communities meeting their basic needs through education, training, leadership, environment and sustainable solutions
What it reported doing in 2024
Through our Halo Food Project and Green Food Land initiatives, we advance land stewardship, regenerative agriculture, and clean energy education. These spaces are designed to engage residents directly in sustainable farming practices, climate education, and collaborative land-use planning, forming an integral part of our broader Community Food and Farming Program. Currently, we work with a dedicated pool of 200 volunteers and serve over 5,000 residents annually. Our efforts include: Distributing fresh produce and pre-packed food to underserved residents. Supporting local growers to strengthen community-based food systems. Hosting educational workshops on climate-resilient agriculture and sustainability. The Green Food Land Project specifically focuses on land stewardship and development for community farming and clean-tech demonstration sites, supporting long-term sustainability goals and climate resilience in rural areas of California.
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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 84.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $245K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.