Al Friends Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822461103
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Monterey, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8314020820
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Congregate Meals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,930
- Expenses
- $105,133
- Assets
- $178,329
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICK RICHARDS (President)
People named in this filing
- ALVIN SIEKERT (Founder)
- JUSTIN NOREN (Secretary)
- RICK RICHARDS (President)
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
Al & Friends is to lift up members of the community who suffer from the most pressing challenges: hunger, homelessness, and poverty. Our organization thrives because we are an effective social service provider, a consistent presence, and a growing local network of dedicated citizens built from within the community that we serve. By serving thoughtfully planned meals regularly, Al & Friends helps bring dignity to people's lives, nurtures benevolent values within our community, and invites everyone to get involved in doing something that matters.
What it reported doing in 2024
We serve meals once a week to those that are homeless, hungry or experiencing poverty/hard times. We serve planned meals to people that would otherwise not have a meal in a long time.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.9%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
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: 39.9%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 59.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.9% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.