Coleman Children and Youth Services Dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942258612
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152390161
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,623,648
- Expenses
- $3,331,116
- Assets
- $5,238,743
- Liabilities
- $235,307
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rosario Cervantes Dir (President)
- Maria Luz Torre Dir (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Chris Ballard (Executive Dir.): $228,691 total reported compensation
- Anna Tai Finance (Director): $129,291 total reported compensation
- Geoffrey Winder Interim (Executive Dir.): $30,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coleman builds the leadership and power of low-income and working-class BIPOC children, youth, and families in San Francisco to advance racial and economic justice in our schools and our city.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fiscally Sponsored Projects: The organization fiscally sponsored the Alliance for Educational Just AEJ, a national youth alliance. The second fiscal project is the SF Youth Commission, which works to give a voice to young people at city hall. The third project is Tower of Youth, which is focused on engaging Native American students and parents. The fourth project, the California Black Leadership Project, involves researching and collecting data. The last fiscal project, Budget Justice Coalition, is focused on advocating for nonprofit organizations. In addition, the organization supports the Coleman Action Fund for Children and Youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 - 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: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $229K · 10 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.