Assistance League of Rancho San Dieguito
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330556542
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Encinitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7606341091
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $485,525
- Expenses
- $424,239
- Assets
- $952,900
- Liabilities
- $103,130
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda Kermott (President)
- Diana Dean-Nau (Vice President)
- Kathy Aubin (Vice President)
- Deborah Beauschene (Vice President)
- Claudette Chaisson (Vice President)
- Lory McGregor (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Gary Wolod (Treasurer): $2,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assistance League of Rancho San Dieguito is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization whose members are dedicated to making a positive difference in our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Thrive provides financial support and materials for a local program that helps children and teens who have experienced violence regain trust and community through a balanced, research-based program. General Assistance Program (GAP) provides essentially needed undergarments, clothes, toiletries, and supplies to Sharias Closet located within One Safe Place to help survivors of abuse, trafficking, and victimization.Outreach assists an individual or family in a one-time, unexpected crisis.Knifty Knitters provides hand-knitted infant layettes to military personnel and other families in need in our community, hand-knitted scarves to active military personnel, and hand-knitted shawls to patients undergoing chemotherapy.Preschool English Literacy Program prepares preschoolers for kindergarten by improving English, reading, math, and social interaction skills through various games.Flowers for Seniors gives floral bouquets to senior centers and others in need. The bouquets are put together by our volunteers using donated flowers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.1%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.1% of revenue deployed · 53.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $227K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.