Autism Works
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264735538
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- North Tustin, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4843407484
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $275,329
- Expenses
- $341,549
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- MELISSA KENIG-DAVIS (BOARD CHAIR)
- LARRY MOODY (VICE CHAIR)
- SEAN ROY (SECRETARY)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Autism works provides employment services for adults with high- functioning autism. These services consist of a customized career- coaching model that uses the gifts and talents of each client to find the perfect fit for long-term employment. They try to capitalize on the strengths of the individuals. Autism works helps individuals with autism connect with their community in the areas of employment and social coaching.
What it reported doing in 2017
Autism works employment methodology includes an assessment phase and a placement phase. During the assessment phase, clients are evaluated for strengths, skills, and special interests. During that process, an assigned employment consultant spends several weeks with each client establishing vocational themes based on the assessment. Then the employment consultant and client visit businesses in the community to vet the veracity of the vocational themes, and, to further establish best fit through these initial interactions. Adjustments are made to the vocational themes and an employment plan is created. Once an employment plan is established, the employment and client move from assessment to placement. Placement consists of networking with businesses in the community, much like the assessment phase, with formal and informal job seeking activities. This process can take from a week or two to many months or even a year. For the year 2017, autism works provided the following: - total consumers assessment - 130+ - total consumers completing assessment - 59 - total consumers receiving jobs - 66 - total consumers holding a job for 90 days - 39 for 2017, we served 39 college students with autism as part of our post- secondary navigation services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 74% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.1%; rating input score 11; 11th 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 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 63.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $218K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.