Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Service

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133915313
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,388
Expenses
$94,761
Assets
$498,337

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • HEIDI SNOW (Executive Direc)
  • ARIANA BRATT (Secretary)
  • DR SUSAN SNOW (Board Director)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Air Crash Support Network, Inc. was founded in the fall of 1996, D/B/A Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS). ACCESS - Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services sole focus is to aid and facilitate in the grieving process of people who have been affected by an airplane crash. By providing access to emotional understanding and assistance to friends and families of crash victims and survivors, ACCESS helps people cope with this nightmare. It is the goal of ACCESS to provide security and comfort to victims as they prepare for the future, and overcome the challenges that lay ahead.

What it reported doing in 2024

AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS) - PROGRAMSAirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services is a three-part program of supportive services, designed to help lessen the bewilderment and isolation following an air crash by providing immediate access to invaluable grief support and appropriate resources:(A) Volunteer Grief Mentoring Program: This program is comprised of trained volunteers who have experienced a similar tragic loss. Through our toll-free hot-line and website, ACCESS provides a convenient and accessible volunteer network that places survivors in touch with others who provide continuous help through the weeks, months and years following a crash. (B) Resource and Referral Network: The network refers victims to appropriate bereavement support groups and services in the victim's area.(C) Support Services Guide : This guide consists of written and audio visual materials which are distributed to victims following an air crash to help clarify the roles of the various emergency support organizations and government agencies available to the victims. It includes ACCESS's toll-free helpline number, Internet address, grief literature and bereavement guides, which are helpful to the victims in the aftermath of an air crash.

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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.26; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.