Washington-lincoln Laurels for Leaders
Overview
Mission
To recognize and reward leadership qualities of outstanding high school students in san diego county, based on criteria exemplified by george Washington and abraham lincoln.
What it reported doing in 2023
In conjunction with the luncheon to honor the high school award recipients, the organization provides a half day of training for the students devoted to financial literacy, ethics, and servant leadership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237076165
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Headquarters
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87%; rating input score 87; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.71; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2015 to 2023
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.