Casa De Amistad Centro De Ensenanza
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260016331
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Solana Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8585092590
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $560,525
- Expenses
- $823,014
- Assets
- $2,687,474
- Liabilities
- $181,191
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicole Mione-Green (Executive Director)
- Marty King (President)
- Nadine Padilla (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Nicole Mione-Green (Executive Director): $112,996 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of casa de amistad is to provide low-income, underserved children, teens and their families in coastal north county san diego with tutoring, leadership training, and character development. We are transforming a new generation of leaders through academic support, mentoring, and enrichment activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Study companions program - the conerstone of casa de amistad is its study companions program. Study companions is an educational mentoring program designed to improve the academic achievement of children in grades k-12. Students participating in casa de amistad are from school districts throughout coastal north county san diego. The students are matched with volunteer mentors with whom they meet two evenings per week during the school year. During these meetings the mentors help the students with homework and study skills. There were approximately 240 volunteer tutors and even more students, as well as a waiting list with approximately 65 names.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
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: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 50th 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -46.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.27; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $665K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.