The Reuse People of America Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330852796
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5103831983
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,642,042
- Expenses
- $1,616,622
- Assets
- $1,487,035
- Liabilities
- $550
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Ted Reiff (Secretary)
- Noelle Hoeffler (Board Member)
- Jeff Jeanette (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
Reducing the impact on landfills by salvaging used building materials and providing them for reuse, educating others to reuse salvaged materials, promoting a healthier environment and creating green jobs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dedicated to reducing the proliferation and growth of landfills by promoting reuse/recycle of used buidling materials emanating from construction and demolition of residential, commercial and industrial buildings. Systematically expanding throughout the United States providing deconstruction, training, management, oversight and consultation services of building deconstruction at the request of owners or their construction contractors who wish to reduce demolition waste. In addition, the Organization receives and processes deconstructed material, either preparing them for retail sale or donating them to other not-for-profit organizations that provide housing and building construction throughout the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 53
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.3%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $165.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 60%; rating input score 60; 12th 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: 1.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.3% of revenue deployed · 69.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.