Assistance League of Riverside California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952394523
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9516823445
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $938,212
- Expenses
- $868,277
- Assets
- $2,935,269
- Liabilities
- $72,603
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynn Athens (President)
People named in this filing
- Lynn Athens (President)
- Paul Rodriguez (VP Membership)
- Don Parmer (VP Programs)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assistance League of Riverside is dedicated to providing programs that address unmet needs for children and young adults in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other Programs: RAP (Reading Assistance Partners) was launched in 2023 and provides tutoring in phonics to underachieving 2nd graders at 4 elementary schools. Childrens Outreach supports social and educational development of financially disadvantaged and special needs children through tuition scholarships, supplies, and activities provided through The Carolyn E. Wylie Center for Children, Youth & Families. Also, a $2,000 scholarship was awarded to a local high school senior.Adopt-a-Family provides families with food, decorations, and gifts during the holiday season.SOAR Reading provides after-school tutoring for students in grades 1-3. Financial Literacy provides tutoring that helps students in grades 46 develop essential financial literacy skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.8%; rating input score 92; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.38; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $674K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.