Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
651234981
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Santa Maria, CA, USA
Phone
8053461774
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,133,346
Expenses
$5,817,862
Assets
$2,975,234
Liabilities
$1,744,202

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT BUSH (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DARREN MCDUFFIE EDD (PRESIDENT)
  • FRANK E WEAVER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • FRANK E WEAVER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $251,888 total reported compensation
  • DAWNETTE M SMITH (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $155,274 total reported compensation
  • SHANA POMPA (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $145,504 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To partner with all members of the santa maria community to achieve resilience against substance use, reductions in violence and promote a healthy and safe environment for our youth and families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Young-adult homeless services: fbsmv provides support services to the transitional-aged homeless youth (ages 1624) for the santa barbara county and the u.s. Department of housing and urban development (hud). Fbsmv provides street outreach, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing at its four-bedroom facility, the resilient place, and case management services to help youth maintain stable housing and prevent future homelessness. Social emotional support: fbsmv provides targeted social-emotional support for students and families in the santa maria valley for santa maria bonita school district. The target groups are students in foster care, homeless students, truant students, and students involved in conflicts or violence. Students receive case management, somatic regulation techniques, mediation, and peer support. Parents receive support for housing, basic needs, legal services, and educational classes. Justice involved youth services: fbsmv provides justice involved youth services that support youth impacted by the justice system in santa barbara county for the sbc department of probation. Services include case management, reentry support, diversion, conflict mediation, cannabis education, and connections to education, employment, and basic needs resources to promote stability and reduce recidivism.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 61
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $152.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $704K reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.