Cease for Peace
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870831443
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3233158232
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $403,612
- Expenses
- $308,674
- Assets
- $260,884
- Liabilities
- $24,961
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT): $58,300 total reported compensation
- ERRIS DOLBERRY (PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR): $54,947 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization nbsp; committed nbsp; to nbsp; empowering nbsp; marginalized nbsp; communities nbsp; with nbsp; employment nbsp; readiness nbsp; mentoring nbsp; job nbsp; placement nbsp; for nbsp; the nbsp; formerly nbsp; incarcerated nbsp; at-risk nbsp; youth nbsp; and nbsp; adults nbsp; that nbsp; struggle nbsp; with nbsp; employment
What it reported doing in 2024
Amity award 07/2024
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $406K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 19 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesOther column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.