Acknowledge Alliance

What it reported doing in 2024

The resilience consultation program, serving k-8 schools, provides a unique approach to healthier school environments, improving social-emotional learning (sel) competencies and reducing the impacts of mental health for school leaders, teachers, and students. The work we do with this population includes teacher and principal support through one-on-one coaching, trainings, professional development, classroom observations; 3rd - 8th grade social-emotional learning (sel) lessons; and student counseling. Many of the schools we serve are underperforming with a large majority of the students on the free or reduced meal plan. Students may be facing adversities such as experiencing early childhood trauma including developing mental health issues, living in home environments with stress and anxiety, and experiencing poverty, hunger, and stress that each inhibits a positive learning experience.acknowledge resilience program staff, comprised of a team of mental health and education professionals, meet with teachers in their classrooms and principals to offer support and implement ways to make school a healthy, positive place. Our direct work with educators helps them discover their unique strengths in the profession and provides them with the tools to work with students in an empathic, effective, and strength-based way. 95% of the teachers we serve are expressing positive change: "acknowledge staff help us work through obstacles & challenges they may be facing regarding every aspect of staff-student relationship."social emotional learning (sel) is the foundation of support needed to acquire the skills for lifelong effectiveness. In education, sel creates a supportive school environment where students are respected, cared for, and connected. The resilience program includes sel curriculum for elementary and middle school to teach students how to effectively manage emotions, make responsible decisions, establish meaningful relationships, and achieve goals. Our staff facilitates these lessons to the entire classroom, including the teacher, to make it a collaborative learning environment and support the educators' sel skills. Research links sel to improved attitudes about school, academic achievement, and reductions in aggression, mental health problems, and substance use.teachers, next to family, spend the most time with youth and can have an incredible influence on their lives. Acknowledge alliance helps make this happen, changing lives in a positive way. This program serves 20 schools in san mateo and santa clara counties, impacting 412 teachers, principals, and administrators, and over 10,000 students.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
• Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 75
• Fundraising efficiency: $2.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings