Deposition Reporters Assoc Of California Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931202705
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Torrance, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8888672074
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,437
- Expenses
- $238,809
- Assets
- $170,404
- Liabilities
- $90,259
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Leslie (President)
- Cindy Vega (President Elect)
- Sarah MacDevitt (Vice President/Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Shivanee Sujata (Director)
- Molly Cooper (Director)
- Carline Fonseca (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Deposition Reporters Association of California, Inc. strives to preserve and enhance the freelance stenographic reporting profession, ensure its intergraity, and maintan its high standards and impartiality wherever stenographic services are required.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization maintains a website and provides members with a quarterly newsletter to keep membership informed of issues and new regulations involved in their profession.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% 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: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.