Urban Mosaic Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472796388
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2017415028
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $256,087
- Expenses
- $283,726
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY TAMANAHA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
- RICHARD HENDERSON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RICKIE ZHENG (TREASURER): $70,950 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to support and promote the creation, development, implementation and transmission of replicable models for holistic urban transformation that strengthen civil society and equip people to become change agents committed to reducing poverty and violence.
What it reported doing in 2022
We continue to support holistic community development in urban poor communities - currently on the eastern side of mexico city and caribbean coast of colombia - areas that have been deemed among the most violent and poverty-stricken regions in their countries. In addition, through our broad-based organizing efforts, we are impacting urban poor city dwellers in several other municipalities. This includes teaching public health prevention, environmental clean-up, household building improvements, vocational training, and launching micro-enterprises. Community projects include improving access to basic services like water, sewage, and electricity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $255K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.