Charles & Betty Shindler Family Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954773366
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2014–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2014
- Location
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104441889
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1
- Expenses
- $19,613
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Independent Foundations
What it reported funding in 2014
The foundation reported 2 filed grant rows totaling $16,913. The stated grant purposes included cure crohn's disease and colitis, improve quality of life of those affected. and improve the lives of affected people through research, education and outreach..
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and the filing identifies who received its grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the available information about grant readiness state registration leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 86
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 4
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 7; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 4th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- 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.
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 — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.