Arab Cultural Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237334585
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2013
Forms available
Form 990 2013
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4156642200
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$383,893
Expenses
$436,691
Assets
$384,090
Liabilities
$14,314

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rena Kharbat (President)
  • Tayeb Abdulrahim (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Soraya Hosni (Exec Director): $55,892 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Arab Cultural and Community Center of San Francisco is a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting Arab art and culture, and enriching the lives of the Arab American Community. The organization achieves this by providing culturally focused social services, and promoting cross-cultural events to all residents of the Bay Area and beyond. It draws upon the Arab American heritage and traditions to guide its work. Each year, ACCC provides hundreds of families and individuals with services like health referrals, immigration assistance and ESL classes. The ACCC is committed to strengthening the understanding of Arab culture by providing organizations and communities in Northern California with educational programs and cultural events.

What it reported doing in 2013

The organization offers three major programs: wellness, youth, and cultural. Program achievements include satisfying or exceeding funder requirements for outcomes and outputs, numbers of clients served, offering culturally and linguistically relevant services in all of our program areas. In the organization's wellness program it served over 100 unduplicated women in or at risk of violence, responded to over 400 crisis calls, spent over 2,000 hours advocating for Arab and Muslim individuals in need of case management, presented 50 cultural competency trainings to service providers, and trained an additional 80 community members. The youth program tutored 45 unduplicated students four days a week afterschool in addition to assisting 30 high school students with facilitating Arab culture clubs at their high schools. Youth were also offered additional group activities on a monthly basis such as family day at the beach, a day trip to Google headquarters, and multiple field trips.The cultural program included the publication of a Racial Equity toolkit for educators. The toolkit meets California Common Core standards and is a compilation of lesson plans, teaching guides, and resources for educators to integrate into their current curriculum. Subjects include Restorative Justice for Arab and Muslim Students, The Arab Uprisings, Contemporary Arab Art and Culture, Addressing Racially Motivated Bullying and Discrimination, and many more relevant topics.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 69% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $382K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.