Computers 2 Sd Kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201789293
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8582009790
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,457,654
- Expenses
- $2,516,016
- Assets
- $1,047,567
- Liabilities
- $575,730
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- YVETTE HERRERA (CHIEF PHILANTHROPY): $116,458 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Computers 2 sd kids believes that all children and their families, regardless of their economic status, need to be computer literate and have equal access to technology and the crucial educational, occupational, and financial resources that technology can provide to improve their educational options and their futures.
What it reported doing in 2025
C2sdk accepts donated computers from individuals and businesses and refurbishes them. The computers are loaded with microsoft windows operating system, microsoft office productivity software, and educational software focusing on math and logic, language arts, science, social studies, art and music, computer programming, and life skills. Since inception, c2sdk has distributed more than 315,000 computers to low-income families, accompanied with software and free lifetime technical support to all recipients. In 2025, c2sdk distributed 20,597 computers to low-income families. Recipient families are asked to give a small donation to offset refurbishment costs and c2sdk also sells one-of-kind items that cannot be donated to families (for example, larger printers and photocopiers) to augment its program revenue.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -2.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $168K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.