Ever Forward-siempre Adelante
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061750500
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5106844842
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,911
- Expenses
- $1,630
- Assets
- $89,739
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashanti Branch (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ashanti Branch (Executive Director)
- Lorenzo Cooper (Director)
- Myles Cowherd (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ever Forward - Siempre Adelante (EFSA) works at the intersection of Social Emotional Learning, Mentoring and Academic Advising. We aim to address the underlying causes of dropouts and the growing achievement gap of inner city youth in a preventive manner, as early as sixth grade. Our programs seek to improve every educational and personal relationship in a young man's life.
What it reported doing in 2015
The Ever Forward Club program (Club) is a youth development and mentoring program for young men in grades six through twelve. The Club provides a safe space for young men to navigate life challenges and human emotions they are often not given the space, or the tools, to do so safely. Club objectives span across four development areas: Academic, Social, Community and Family. Moreover, the Club curriculum addresses a primary focus of EFSA's work, to create communities of young men who are setting and achieving goals inside and outside the classroom. We established 6 Clubs in 2015, and are positioned to add at least 4 more during 2016.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.3%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 98%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 55.05; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.