Fountain Hills Community Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860800268
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2020
- Location
- Fountain Hills, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4803907255
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,238
- Expenses
- $123,977
- Assets
- $483,400
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dori Wittrig (President-Director)
- Helen Whatmough (Vice-President-Director)
People named in this filing
- Dori Wittrig (President-Director)
- Mark Dalton (Treasurer-Director)
- Sandi McGee (Secretary-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
Building a Legacy in Fountain Hills and the surrounding communities.The Fountain Hills Community Foundation is a 501 C3 investing in nonprofit organizations whose work improves the lives of our youth seniors families and community. FHCF works with nonprofit organizations as a partner helping them to identify problems find solutions and become continually stronger and more effective. Each year the Fountain Hills Community Foundation receives dozens of grant applications from local nonprofit organizations to help with new projects and ongoing projects. These organizations rely on donor support and grants to grow and survive.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Foundation provides greatly needed financial support to other local Fountain Hills community 501c3 organizations and individuals who apply for grants funded by an annual fundraising event Flutter at the Fountain and other campaigns as well as managing a donor-advised fund and a legacy endowed investment fund.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.7%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 16.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.9; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.7% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.