Amanecer Community Counseling Service a Non-profit Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953076578
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
2134817464
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Mental Health Center

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,760,296
Expenses
$11,556,595
Assets
$15,009,200
Liabilities
$11,035,395

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

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TEDDIE VALENZUELA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ALICIA NUNEZ (DIRECTOR): $594,063 total reported compensation
  • ANDRES CONTRERAS (CHAIR): $429,197 total reported compensation
  • MAX GONZALES (SECRETARY): $426,343 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 instill hope and empower clients to believe in themselves and their capacity for recovery and resilience.

What it reported doing in 2024

Domestic violence calworks: eligible participants in the California work opportunity and responsibility to kids (calworks), general relief (gr), and general relief opportunities for work (grow) programs in los angeles county (lac). Collectively, these services are known as domestic violence supportive services (dvss). Amanecer's domestic violence program, "first step forward" offers individual, family and group therapy, intensive case management, parenting and life skills training, and access to employment, education, job training and housing resources to individuals who have been traumatized by abuse in the home. Our goal is to transform victims into survivors. Most of our program provide case management services which include confidential support services, safety planning, and advocacy. The case manager's work with individual and families on advocacy/referral services to help with obtaining the appropriate community resources (financial assistance, emotional stability, and educational benefits). We served 94 clients in the domestic violence calworks program during fy25.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 65
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $401.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $10.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $594K · 23 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $100K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 80 filed related-organization links
  • 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: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.