Dollies Making a Difference Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461782019
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104597595
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,034
- Expenses
- $60,374
- Assets
- $49,622
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNTHIA SIMON (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- DOROTHY MIYAKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CYNTHIA SIMON (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- DOROTHY MIYAKE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANNE SACKS (TREASURER)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create hand-made children's toys like dollies and teddy bears and distribute them as humanitarian gifts, through other charitable organizations or directly, to sick, needy or distressed children in hospitals, schools, orphanages, or disaster-affected areas around the world.
What it reported doing in 2019
Dollies making a difference inc. Creates one-of-a-kind handmade dollies and colorful teddy bears for children all over the world who are in need. In 2019 approximately 1,900 dollies and teddy bears were distributed to children in hospitals, orphanages and schools in the united states and around the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.6%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -50.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.6% of revenue deployed · 11.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2019
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.