D I G N I T Y Awareness Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472610636
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6618029289
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,965
- Expenses
- $69,917
- Assets
- $3,113
- Liabilities
- $62,623
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ariel Richardson (President)
- Trina Muhammad (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ariel Richardson (President)
- Trina Muhammad (Vice President)
- Beverly Carter (Treasurer/Asst. Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dignity Awareness Foundation, Inc. provides community and educational resources to veterans and their families, in-need youth, and their families, seniors, and the homeless. Dignity also provides transitional and permanent housing for displaced veterans and their families. DIGNITY Programs: * Food and Water, Clothing, Care Package Giveaways * Charlotte's Closet Clothing Giveaways * Walter's Library Book Giveaways * DIGNITY #Lunchbag (Bag Lunches) * Veteran/Youth mentoring, tutoring, etc. * Community Giveaways/Carnivals/Festivals
What it reported doing in 2024
Dignity #Lunchbag: twice a year Dignity along with family, friends, and community members to come together and create a beautiful experience for those who are suffering publicly and in silence. We design paper lunch bags and index cards with messages of love and hope fill the bags with a sandwich, fruit, pastry, water for our veterans, homeless and youth that are struggling. We served 400.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.4%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -679.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 20.12; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.4% of revenue deployed · 6.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.