Arthritis Foundation Pacific Region Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951885447
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3239545760
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,789,290
- Expenses
- $10,744,030
- Assets
- $27,030,748
- Liabilities
- $2,256,481
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- J Asher Garfinkel (executive director)
- manuel loya (president)
- valerie jones (vice president)
- amy l robertson (vice president)
- Teresa Dinh Watanabe (vice president)
- Angele Price (vice president)
Highest reported compensation
- manuel loya (president): $334,442 total reported compensation
- Amy B Daugherty (chief development officer): $255,239 total reported compensation
- Victoria Fung (chief program officer): $153,275 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Arthritis Foundation is to improve lives through leadership in the prevention, control and cure of arthritis and related diseases.
What it reported doing in 2015
Public health education represents programs conducted for the purpose of informing the general public on all aspects of arthritis, including information regarding awareness of the disease, eliminating misconceptions about arthritis, advising of the benefits of early detection, intervention and treatment, and maintaining appropriate health behaviors. Examples include much of the activity associated with arthritis today or advocacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -37.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $334K · 28 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.