Creating First Impressons Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473486243
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2018
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2016
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone
6197576205
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,260
Expenses
$21,386
Assets
$20,667
Liabilities
$24,207

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jessica Sobel (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Darrin Nelson (Board Member)
  • Parker Cox (Board Member)
  • Resah Hage (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Providing career and education consulting through a curriculum dedicated to create a better sense of career adaptability amongst at-risk youth ages 14-25 in the greater San Diego area.

What it reported doing in 2018

Creating First Impression offered its Career Adaptability Core program for two 16 week cycles, Fall and Spring. The program delivers career readiness, financial literacy and interpersonal effectiveness.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.17; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 54.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 43.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2018
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.