Compasspoint Mentorship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462389059
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4084780683
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $612,716
- Expenses
- $621,120
- Assets
- $171,790
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CATHERINE LIU (EXECUTIVE DI): $100,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission our mission is to help children convert ideas into world-changing actions through education, mentorship, and leadership opportunities. Our vision compasspoint mentorship envisions a world where every young person has the knowledge, skills, and social network to care for themselves and their communities when they enter adulthood.
What it reported doing in 2025
Committee programs the youth committee at compasspoint mentorship leads student-driven committees and special projects that build leadership, civic responsibility, and career readiness. Current committees include data science for social justice, sustainability, public art, history and culture, and wellness. These programs are supported by grants from silicon valley clean energy, the legacy san jose alviso youth foundation, and valley water, along with community donations that help fill program funding gaps. Special projects include internship pathways with bart and nasa career exploration, connecting students to real workforce experience. In 2025, more than 100 students completed community impact projects, contributing over 1,500 hours of service, and over 30 students received official recognition and commendations from the California state legislature, santa clara county, san mateo county, and the city of san jose for their leadership and service. In 2025, more than 27 big youth lead free events
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 62.6%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 68.6%; rating input score 69; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -1.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.6% of revenue deployed · 62.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $389K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.