Assistance League of San Antonio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742330690
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2107321200
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,583,491
- Expenses
- $1,794,336
- Assets
- $5,456,165
- Liabilities
- $89,847
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHY BUSTOS (President)
- LINDA PATTON (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARCY ANDRADE (Executive Dir.): $89,519 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission - assistance league volunteers transforming lives of children and adults through community programs. Vision - essential needs are met in our community and families flourish.
What it reported doing in 2024
OPERATION SCHOOL BELL (1991)The Operation School Bell program dresses children from elementary schools designated as Title 1. At-risk children identified by school personnel as having inadequate or inappropriate clothing for attending school. Services are provided in a variety of ways to meet the needs of the children and families. The preferred method is in-house dressing where children choose their own clothing with the assistance of volunteers. Each child selects two outfits, a jacket, socks, a pair of sneakers, underwear, a hygiene kit, and a book. A supply of jeans and tee shirts or polo shirts are provided to districts formerly requiring uniforms. Supplemental events, "Jacket Jamborees and Sneaker Scrambles," are held in selected schools to provide jackets or sneakers and socks to children to the entire school. The "Clothes Closet" project gives selected schools underwear, socks, pants and shirts to be used at their discretion for children in need. In 2024-2025, 17,081 elementary students were provided clothing, and 156 member volunteers contributed 4,855 volunteer hours in support of this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 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: -13.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $185K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.