Yes We Can World Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833753567
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burbank, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3202620251
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $357,183
- Expenses
- $387,593
- Assets
- $144,859
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Estefania Rebellon (President)
- Kyle Schmidt (Vice President)
- Estefania Rebellon (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Estefania Rebellon (Chief Executive Officer): $45,000 total reported compensation
- Kyle Schmidt (Chief Operating Officer): $45,000 total reported compensation
- Mario Medina (Director of Operations Mexico): $24,313 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yes We Can World Foundation nurtures Latine excellence through education, culture and narrative change.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 the Yes We Can Mobile Schools Program continued operations with three schools two locations in Tijuana and one in Juarez Mexico for a total of three education relief programs. In 2024 since its inception the program has enrolled and taught over 4,000 children who would not have otherwise had access to an education due to their location legal status and financial hardship. Over 4,000 backpacks 4,000 school supply kits and 8,000 school uniforms have been given to children enrolled in the Yes We Can Mobile Schools Program. A majority of students in the program across all three locations were enrolled in the program for 3 - 4 months during 2024. In 2024 the Yes We Can Mobile Schools Program continued its operations enrolling more children in need and utilized its two mobile bus classrooms as well as supporting tents for classes. This also included family assistance services provided for a family that previously had children attending the Yes We Can Mobile Schools Program. This support helped to provide the family with school supplies groceries housing support and other living needs throughout the year. The expenses covered the costs related to this programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 43
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $333K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 42 current checks pass · 5 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesProfFundraising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.