Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330938212
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9097173952
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,601,306
- Expenses
- $3,046,312
- Assets
- $10,011,942
- Liabilities
- $80,194
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PASTOR JAMES WINFREY (Vice President)
- DR LEN COOPER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PASTOR SAMUEL J CASEY (Executive Dir.): $130,800 total reported compensation
- DWAYNE THOMAS (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $125,350 total reported compensation
- KAMI-THOMPSON-WINFREY (COO): $114,450 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Train and develop the capacity of religious and lay leaders in congregations and across the inland empire to protect and revitalize the communities inwhich they live, work, and worship
What it reported doing in 2024
Community organizing: cope is a faith-based grassroots organization dedicated to strenghtening the capacity of clergy, youth, community leaders, and directly impacted residents to protect and revitalize the communities where they live, work, and worship throughout the inland empire. Through organizing, political education, leadership development and civic engagement, cope advances justice in the areas of education, housing, youth empowerment, and community transformation by equipping residents to advocate for equitable policies and systemic change. As a trusted anchor institution and co-convener of several local, regional and statewide coalitions, cope helps align strategy, build collective power, and advance community-driven solutions that improve outcomes for black and underserved communities across the region and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $806.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.29; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.9% of revenue deployed · 66.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.