Aftra Foundation Inc
Overview
Mission
To support the educational and charitable purpose of "sag-aftra."
What it reported doing in 2015
Support the educational and charitable purpose of "sag-aftra".
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133904351
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Television
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9,257.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 130.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 6 annual filings from 2010 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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.