Yusra Mardini Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921461685
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6318824015
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $263,775
- Expenses
- $52,032
- Assets
- $291,482
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Yusra Mardini (President)
People named in this filing
- John Dautzenberg (Secretary)
- Yusra Mardini (President)
- Lara Hakki (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide educational and humanitarian assistance to refugees and vulnerable populations. This includes utilizing sports- particularly swimming- as a means towards peacebuilding and reconciliation in conflict-affected communities or to vulnerable populations.
What it reported doing in 2025
This grant supported a project with Swim for Good, which provided swim lessons to refugees in Greece. For many of these individuals, it was the first time they had ever been in the water, while for other they were overcoming past traumas associated with fleeing their countries via boat. The project received significant positive media coverage in both local and international outlets. This grant also supported the Foundation's partnerships with BYMs international partnerships with the Sport for Refugee Coalition, the Olympic Refuge Foundation, UNHCR, Yoga and Sport with Refugees, and the World Humanitarian Forum. Together, these projects provided services to more than 500 direct beneficiaries, while also advocating for greater international support for refugees and vulnerable populations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.4%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 80.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.6; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 51.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.4% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- 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 14/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.