Assistance League of Flagstaff
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860371898
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9287793009
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $416,188
- Expenses
- $474,532
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCIE BUTTREY (PRESIDENT)
- Cathy Pauls (PRESIDENT ELECT)
People named in this filing
- Julie Swan (PHILANTHROPIC)
- FRANCIE BUTTREY (PRESIDENT)
- Cathy Pauls (PRESIDENT ELECT)
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
Philanthropic charitable work
What it reported doing in 2024
A birthday celebration: provides residents of a health care facility with birthday gifts and refreshments on a monthly basis.Kiddie closet: distributes a complete layette to newborns of needy parents referred to us by agencies with whom we have a contract.Hug-a-Bear: provides teddy bears to approved agencies who distribute them to comfort children and adults in traumatic situations.Assault Survivor Kits: partnering with crisis intervention specialists from approved organization, this program provides funding for clothing, food, and personal care items, for survivors of sexual assault.Thrift shop vouchers: provides clothing and other essential items families and individuals referred to our thrift store by approved social service organizations.Sharon Manor: provides needed and useful items for residents of Sharon Manor, a home for survivors of domestic violence and homelessness.Kids in difficult situations (KIDS): Provides items to help comfort children and their families at the Safe Child Center, a child abuse intervention and services program at the Flagstaff Medical Center.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: -14%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $319K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.