Assistance League Coachella Valley

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237292226
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
Phone
7608480084
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$436,850
Expenses
$574,628
Assets
$948,652
Liabilities
$46,907

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Judy Walker (President)
  • Ellie Hull (Vice President)
  • Karen Goodyear (Vice President)
  • Lori Grossberg (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Judy Walker (President)
  • Ellie Hull (Vice President)
  • Karen Goodyear (Vice President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to transform the lives of children and adults through community programs in the Coachella Valley. We help children, seniors, assault survivors, and military families.

What it reported doing in 2024

OPERATION SCHOOL BELL: Through Operation School Bell, new school clothes, shoes, hygiene kits, backpacks, and supplies are distributed to disadvantaged students attending public schools in the Coachella Valley. In 2023-24, the chapter provided new school clothes, shoes, and hygiene supplies to 4,450 disadvantaged students attending 46 schools in three school districts. In 2024-2025 the chapter provided new school clothes, shoes, and hygiene supplies to 4,398 disadvantaged students attending 49 schools in three school districts. Additional students were reached through program expansion including distributing backpacks and school supplies, supplying middle school and high school students with clothing, and hygiene items, as well as providing bedding, warm clothing and hygiene and school supplies to students from homeless situations. Additional clothing and supplies were purchased for inventory, enabling school administrators to distribute items throughout the school year as needs arose including the arrival of refugee and migrant students. Through a partnership with school nurses, 1,500 hygiene kits in 2023-2024 and 1,400 hygiene kits in 2024-2025 were provided to school nurses. The kits were used as teaching tools in Growth and Development classes for 5th graders and then distributed to students. The program expanded in the Coachella Valley Unified School District by providing the district wellness centers with clothing, hygiene and menstrual items, snacks, and sensory items. This program impacted 1,000 students in its initial two months of operation during 2023-2024 and impacted 2,665 students during the twelve months of 2024-2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $436K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.