Tiny Village Spirit

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992684195
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone
5102820396
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing, Shelter N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,879
Expenses
$59,033
Assets
$290,603
Liabilities
$78,500

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mahesh Jain (President)

People named in this filing

  • Mahesh Jain (President)
  • Jim Acock (Secretary)
  • Patrick Lane (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

Tiny Village Spirit is currently promoting construction of tiny house, farm and garden to serve young people, ages 18 to 24, in Richmond, CA. Our goal is to construct tiny house villages serving unsheltered people in Richmond and Contra Costa County. This project has a move-in goal July 2026

What it reported doing in 2025

Tiny House Village, Farm & Garden is an emergency housing project located in 75 23rd Street, Richmond for the unhouse young adults. It will provide 12 tiny house for youth ages 18-24, It will have facilities of kitchen and dinning room & community space with laundry and bathroom. Resident can live in the village for 2 years.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 28.1%; rating input score 28
  • Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 65.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.92; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 48% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 90.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 28.1% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.