Basic Needs Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264498035
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Carson, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3233252712
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,918
- Expenses
- $81,123
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nhutdung N Adolfo (President)
People named in this filing
- Nhutdung N Adolfo (President)
- Elaine Adolfo (Secretary)
- Creed A Raftery (Director)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide food for homeless people who live in their vehicles with their children and pets. We also provide pet food to low income people and cat food for feral cats. We find homes for pets when their homeless owners can no longer care for them. We conduct numerous spay/neuter programs in various areas in Southern California.
What it reported doing in 2022
Basic Needs Foundation Accomplishments for 2022: Basic Needs Foundation provides both people food and pet food for very low-income working homeless individuals who live in their vehicles with their children and pets. The average income for these families is $475 per month. Most of these homeless individuals can only find part-time jobs in low-paying retail positions. Many animals are abandoned or surrendered to city and county shelters because their low-income owners cannot afford to feed their pets. Because they have lost their jobs, their homes go into foreclosure and these families are evicted with no other options . Our Foundation alleviates the financial and physical burden on city and county animal shelters, and also on taxpayers, by providing pet food to enable low-income individuals to keep their pets. Restricted and unrestricted grants from animal welfare foundations allow us to offer free spaying and neutering, and Trap/Neuter/Release (TNR) of feral cats to low-income, homeless pet owners and feral cat feeders in several rural communities. We altered 327 dogs, cats and feral cats in 2022 and we adopted out 72 pets to their forever homes. We also subsidized critical veterinary care for low-income pet owners on a case-by- case basis.We re-homed 56 semi-feral and feral cats to the Barn Cat program. This program is a way to provide a second chance to semi-feral and feral cats. They are fully vetted cats that are placed within barns, farm structures, outbuildings, factories and warehouses. In a symbiotic relationship, cats receive shelter, fresh water and a regular food supply and keep mice and rats out of these facilities. They may eat rats and mice, who bring diseases and destruction to supplies, but the presence of cats also deters rats from coming nearby. This is because cats mark their territory by simply rubbing up against things, and even the scent of a cat can make rats scatter. The Fix Your Pets program has altered over 4,921 pets and community and feral cats, since August, 2011, via Mobile Spay and Neuter Clinics. These are nonprofit discount spay and neuter clinics such as Critters Without Litters, and traditional clinics such as CalCity Pet Clinic and 4 Paws Pet Hospital. We are very grateful for your kind support of our organization since 2009. Due to the challenge of unable to raise enough funds for future years, we have closed our doors and dissolved Basic Needs Foundation as of December 31, 2022. Thank you for your generous support since 2009, the year we originally began helping others and their pets. Goodbye to all and to all a good and worthy life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2022
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.