Advance Community

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237087997
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
6022527772
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,184,411
Expenses
$2,668,326
Assets
$3,783,165
Liabilities
$71,562

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JERI ROYCE (PRESIDENT/CE)

Highest reported compensation

  • JERI ROYCE (PRESIDENT/CE): $169,000 total reported compensation
  • KERRY WHITE (CFO): $99,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We build optimal health in under-resourced communities across the globe.

What it reported doing in 2024

Advance community continues its mission, committed to building optimal health in under-resourced communities - locally and worldwide. With a vision of health equity for all, we provide hope through disease prevention, education, nutrition, surgical and dental missions, and community development. In fy25, we served internationally in honduras, guatemala, el salvador, mexico, bolivia, nicaragua, and peru. Additional countries represent new partnerships with materna foundation and living to serve, and new countries, which create the opportunity to expand our surgical missions, which have been curtailed due to political unrest in nicaragua and ecuador. Internationally, we served 51,530 individuals in food security, health education, access to water, and surgical and dental missions. Locally, our work continues to expand through our health & wellness and nutrition programs. In the area of health & wellness, we offered classes in spanish on health and nutrition, diabetes prevention, and management to 2,045 adults and seniors in fy25. Additionally, 3,514 youth and teens attended our programming in oral health education, i choose wellness (teaching grades 3 - 8 to take charge of their physical, emotional, and social well-being), and show up (a training program preparing high school students to become the next generation of public health leaders). In the area of nutrition, we served 23,400 hot meals to seniors living in low-income housing, experiencing homelessness, and homebound. Over 400 families received healthy food boxes designed to support well-being and food security. Fy25 was the second year of our partnership with valleywise health, providing the diabetes empowerment education program (deep) and diabetically tailored food boxes every month for a year for all graduating students - approximately 160 participants each year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 62
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 98.9%; rating input score 99; 36th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 35 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.