Assistance League of Los Gatos-saratoga
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770554406
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Gatos, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088233972
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,981
- Expenses
- $112,614
- Assets
- $226,189
- Liabilities
- $8,889
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KAREN SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT)
- CLAUDIA JONES (RECORDING SECRETARY)
- HEIDI SCHOOLCRAFT (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to promote effective volunteerism through education, service and leadership development.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation school bell - this is a multi-part outreach program geared to elementary and middle school children in campbell union, moreland and luther burbank school districts.literacy - to encourage a love of reading in students, volunteers visit elementary school classrooms once a month to read aloud and then donate new books to the class library. The program provides quality new and gently used books as well for personal use. The chapter has two book give-away programs: in december each child receives one book to take home and in may each student receives two books for summer reading. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, with volunteers, the chapter provided 260 classroom books and 1,556 take-home books to 510 students from 26 classrooms in 5 schools. A pilot fluency program working with small groups of students on fluency and comprehension was begun. Clothes for kids - this program works with area school districts to provide jackets, uniforms, hygiene kits, and shoes and socks to students living at or below the poverty line referred by school personnel, and fill emergency uniform and clothing needs of students as needed. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, with 23 volunteers, the chapter provided 547 students in 18 schools with 541 jackets and sweatshirts, 311 pairs of shoes, as well as many uniforms, socks, and hats.scholarship - elementary and middle school students, selected by school staff, are provided financial assistance to attend science camp in support of the 5th and 6th grade science curricula. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, 189 students in 6 schools received science camp assistance. Steam (science, technology, education, art and math) - this program provided kindergarten through 5th grade students the opportunity to do hands-on engineering projects. In the 2023-2024 fiscal year, revisions in school science curriculums put hands-on projects on hold. In 2024-2025, the chapter supported a pilot program that provided 12 volunteers to assist with the innovation classes during the aim program day. The chapter also provided inquiry-innovation day materials to 643 third grade students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.01; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.