Tracing Public Spaces Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832522779
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sunny Isles Beach, FL, USA
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,144
- Expenses
- $92,163
- Assets
- $5,943
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- ANA C VARGAS (MANAGER)
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
To teach citizens to transform public spaces for the common good by observing their communites, imagining how to transform a public space and transforming it with the help of volunteers from their own communites.
What it reported doing in 2024
Academic workshop at ucv this year, a program was held to train new facilitators in the tracing spaces methodology. We spent three months teaching all the academic content of this methodology at the universidad central de venezuela. Atthe end of the course, the students obtained the tracing spaces facilitator certificate. Impronta community center we held a participatory workshop with the impronta foundation of venezuela, in which they were able to collectively transform the space of their community center. The final design was then completed, along with the architectural and engineering plans for the center. Tee oasis la vega organization created a one-week intensive architectural design workshop for 50 students of rural school in la vega municipality, in caracas, venezuela. During the workshop the kids designed a park for the school that includes filtered drinking water. The school park will be built in 2025. Recreational for escuela fe y alegria enrique de osso organization created a one-week intensive architectural design workshop for 22 students of a school in artigas municipality, in caracas, venezuela. During the workshop the kids designed a park for the school. The school park will be built in 2025. Women entrepreneurship this year, we began supporting a group of artisan women from the rural area of the estado sucre in venezuela. This program teaches them embroidery and sewing classes so they can later sell the products they make. They have also learned to organize themselves as a supportive group, as well as learning about budgeting and marketing. Through this wonderful program, we have empowered these women, made them proud of their creations, and ultimately provided additional income for their homes.
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
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
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: -41.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -87.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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 15/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.