Community Promise
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472250335
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2019–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-PF 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $478
- Expenses
- $34,700
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Educational Services and Schools - Other
What it reported funding in 2020
The foundation reported 12 grants totaling $33,579. The stated grant purposes included educational scholarship, education scholarship, and educational scholarshp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. The foundation's positive operating resources came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 97
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 6
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Missing
- 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
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: 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 6; 6th 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: 6th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 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 6/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to individuals not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.