Csa San Diego County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273317344
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2012
Location
El Cajon, CA, USA
Phone
6194445700
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,119,326
Expenses
$1,029,824
Assets
$449,862
Liabilities
$39,233

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ESTELLA DE LOS RIOS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JARED HERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JESUS PACHECO (BOARD PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ESTELLA DE LOS RIOS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $69,038 total reported compensation
  • JARED HERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $22,574 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to promote social justice and public welfare through advocacy against all forms of discrimination, including but not limited to advocacy for the eradication of housing discrimination to assure equal housing opportunity for all individuals.

What it reported doing in 2024

1)In this FYE 2024 we provided Fair Housing and tenant/landlord mediation services to the CDBG cities of Chula Vista, El Cajon, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside, Santee, and Vista. 2)We are also in agreement with the County of San Diego Fair Housing Program to service six participating cities: Coronado, Lemon Grove, Solana Beach, Imperial Beach, Poway and Del Mar plus the unincorporated area of San Diego. 3)We had one-to-one counseling with over a thousand clients and served several hundreds more through workshops and by participating in the Cities events. We hosted over 120 outreach events throughout San Diego. 4)We are partnered with the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) HUDs intermediary program to provide a first-time home buyers equitable housing opportunities for our San Diego communities. 5)We have used our capacity building grants to expand our services to include housing testing and enforcement and are providing this for the entire region of San Diego.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 56
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $862K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.