Alpha Treatment Centers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330233533
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2022
Location
Riverside, CA, USA
Phone
9513695282
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Foster Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$786,531
Expenses
$1,012,754
Assets
$229,261
Liabilities
$721,464

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENESSA SARGENT (CEO)
  • ROSALIND LEWIS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENESSA SARGENT (CEO): $67,200 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Alpha treatment centers is a California non-profit corporation set up for the general purpose of the prevention of cruelty to children, charitable, and/or educational purposes.

What it reported doing in 2022

Adoption center identifies a child for adoption, arrange adoptions, secures consent to terminate parental rights and to adoption, perform a home study and report on prospective adoptive parents or a background study and reoprt on a child, make a non-judicial determination of a child's best interests and of the appropriateness of an adoptive placement, monitoring a case after a child has been placed with prospective adoptive parents until final adoption, and will assume custody of a child, provide childcare, or any other social services, when necessary, because of a disruption pending alternative placement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -28.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.15; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $861K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.