Angels at Risk
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261100549
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104767100
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,015
- Expenses
- $80,117
- Assets
- $70,451
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSIE SPAIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SUSIE SPAIN (PRESIDENT)
- JESSE SISGOLD (BOARD CHAIR)
- JENA KING (TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As a community, the issue of drug and alcohol use and abuse in kids, teenagers and families is an epidemic crisis. We know that early education, prevention, and intervention can change families' futures forever. Our mission is to raise this awareness. Our angels at risk educational programs and services are designed to encourage communication on a parent to parent, kid to kid, teen to teen and parents to kid/teen level. Our wish is to believe that we can make a shift in the paradigm of mental health by adding prevention education under social and emotional learning in all schools, both public and private. Kids and their families from every platform would have a chance to have a happier, healthier life in this country, in our community, and in their homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Angels at risk's program service accomplishments for each of its 3 largest program services are many. Of the 7 modalities (program services) that we offer (parent-teen program, classroom counselor program, lunchtime program, trainings, generating public awareness, collaboration, & alliances with community resources), the most active ones continue to be the below 2-3 direct services: mod 2. Counselors for campus support, classroom speakers, school assemblies for parents & school assemblies for kids (parent/family element) mod 3. Lunchtime & after school prevention programs & projects (parent/family element) followed by mod 1/ parent-teen prevention education programs (free to westside community/schools/legal/police & courts) (in development) each of our program services/modalities have a profound direct & indirect impact on the kids, parents, families, teachers, administrators, counselors, schools, & community as a whole. Our program services are all based in storytelling with education that illuminates awareness, creates a snapshot that could save the day & produces emotional intelligence. For the past 28 years, since 1997, our prevention education curriculum has been accepted & championed by government officials, community organizations, public & private schools, & families both rich & poor. Perhaps one of the biggest accomplishments that aar has substantiated is the clear acknowledgment/understanding of our reputation of sel/social & emotional learning-based prevention education (which translate to zoom). Our reputation & platform of direct services & sel is unique & while intellectual information has its own position, we believe that the value of storytelling with education is priceless. Even the curriculum of notes from the heart/wishes from the heart is sel. Each note tells a story & loans both a personal & universal voice. The optimistic cautionary tales are yet another example of sel. Each tale teaches a life lesson & has a voice that is specific & universal. While we continue the classic programs we have had since 1997, we also plan to always expand & streamline the implementation of our modalities. Over the years, we have perfected & updated our curriculum to translate to an online zoom experience that includes students, parents, families, teachers, counselors, & the school as a whole. We are proud to say that this year, our successes are many. Some of these accomplishments are measured by & include the following: 1. The impact of our programs is great & our measures of success are through our curriculum-based surveys, endorsement letters, stories & continued requests by school districts, families, agencies, law enforcement, & communities as a whole for the past 28 years. We have also received invitations from larger organizations to be included in policy advocacy, their vision & ideas regarding mental health & drug & alcohol use at a state-wide & national level & requests to collaborate/merge with as their primary prevention education program. 2. We also measure our success through the different requests/continued asks from schools & other non-profits/organizations, both on a local & national scale, to view & understand our heart-based prevention education curriculum which translates to zoom. 3. We continue to be invited for the re-implementation/expansion of our program services in both public & private schools, directly/indirectly impacting roughly 350-500 students, parents, teachers, administrators & people within the community, as seen below: 3a. We were honored to be able to renew & expand our ongoing mou with gdps, marking 10 years of a continued & consistent alliance between aar/gdps via an mou. Through animo leadership chs, we were invited to present our classroom speakers (mod 2) via zoom which was an all-inclusive experience for the school/family community together highlighting prevention education & mental health, impacting the entire 12th grade level consisting of roughly 165 students & their families, do
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.2%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -33.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.2% of revenue deployed · 43.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.