Ujaama Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522085198
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4437966418
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,000
- Expenses
- $410
- Assets
- $31,677
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gordon Baker (President)
- Avon Nelson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Gordon Baker (President)
- Avon Nelson (Vice President)
- Zethray Owens (Secretary)
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
Ujaaama Inc primary purpose is to instill civil and social value in youth by promoting positive self-esteem, creating a strong sense of community and how to become effective leader by unlocking their potential, understand their self worth and purpose. Diversity training, Youth development, Mentoring, and Health education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Students through our mentoring have received letters of acceptance from Norfolk State, Bowie State, Coppin State and Morgan State University. Students who have been through our HIV/AIDS & STI health education has learned their status and are now practicing safe sex methods.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.1%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 91.8%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 77.26; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.1% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $255 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.