U M Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
863756455
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
6265780602
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,092
Expenses
$6,883
Assets
$47,923

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nicole Maloney (President)

People named in this filing

  • Nicole Maloney (President)
  • Sheldon Cruz (Secretary)
  • Robert Maloney (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

The mission of UM Foundation is to focus on youth by addressing income and wealth inequalities. U M Foundation intiatives create racially equitable environments and programs that level the playing field and enhance opportunities for diverse communities. U M Foundation aims to bring back the equal opportunity principal in America.

What it reported doing in 2025

At the beginning of 2025, we decided to remove access to UME online and on mobile devices. We care about the privacy and security of all users. AI development today has not built up the walls and platforms we feel confident to share with the general public. Since March 2025, we have shifted focus away from AI chatbots and instead recognized the impact of AI on education. We began collaborating with the Statistics Department at UCLA, Partners in School Innovation, and have done in depth reviews of other AI led teacher programs. In Q4 2025, we began developing an AI led teacher program for us to conduct an intervention at a charter school in Pasadena January 12-26, 2026. We are hopeful this intervention will prove successful such that we can present the findings to Anthropic, the most reliable and safest AI company in the world. Our goal is to bring personalized mastery learning to all via AI led teacher programs. It gives us great hope for all youth to find the road to upward mobility.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.3%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 86.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.96; rating input score 88; 88th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.3% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.