Advocates USA Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 208922261
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2010–2016
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2016
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone: 7148151419
Rating: 85
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue: $32,346
Expenses: $49,349
Assets: $82,962
Liabilities: $13,570

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Anthony Ferguson (President)

People named in this filing

Anthony Ferguson (President)
Charles Boyd (Member)
Kerry Cox (Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Assisting disadvantaged children.

What it reported doing in 2016

Child focused

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: Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 96
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 32
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -52.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2016
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.