Doors of Change
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770606859
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Cardiff, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7605057077
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $400,105
- Expenses
- $623,812
- Assets
- $363,645
- Liabilities
- $11,599
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey Sitcov (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jeffrey Sitcov (President): $40,000 total reported compensation
- Kim Wezniak (Treasurer): $18,319 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Photocharity addresses youth homeless in san diego by focusing on outreach and trust-building, community-based programming. Serving youth between the ages of 17 and 25, photocharity identifies homeless youth by walking the streets of san diego offering physical support, such as sleeping bags, socks, and water, and inviting these youth to participate in our award-winning music & art program. Participants in the program receive individual or small group instruction on an instrument or art medium of their choice, and develop skill mastery, confidence, a social support network, and a vision that something more may be possible in their lives. Over time, these program participants develop trust in our agency, our staff, and the system, so are much more amenable and eager to be connected to additional community resources. Case management services has been added this year to our program (health care, job placement, mental health/addiction services, housing referral, etc.). Our community-based
What it reported doing in 2024
The Doors of Change team reaches out to unhoused youth where they are and provides them with access to housing, mental health services, job placement, and college support, as well as clothing and other necessities.Our community-based program is built on several principles: (1) services need to be based on evaluations and customized to the needs of each youth, (2) most, if not all, of the youth we serve have been victimized and traumatized, therefore trauma-informed care is essential to their recovery, (3) hard work, participation and accountability are critical and required, and, (4) the services we offer must be client-centered, with the goals for each participant self-identified and supported by case management.Our goal is to help youth become self-sufficient and therefore partner with over 65 service-providing community organizations that specialize in mental health support, housing and shelter placements, employment opportunities, services for youth with disabilities, addiction treatment and domestic violence support.ASSIST HOMELESS TRANSITIONAL AGE YOUTH(AGES 17 TO 25) ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF GETTING THEM OFF THE STREETS INTO SAFE HOUSING AND HELPING THEM ATTAIN SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -55.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $431K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.