Life Skills Center of Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731640106
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6022426400
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,216,787
- Expenses
- $1,202,891
- Assets
- $403,306
- Liabilities
- $50,736
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DALLEN TIMOTHY (PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE GUILEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DALLEN TIMOTHY (PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE GUILEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID GLYNN (SECRETARY)
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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
"the life skills center of Arizona's mission will be to provide a comprehensive and positive educational experience for high school youth that have not succeeded in a traditional learning environment. The center will impart to each student the workplace goals. The center will strive to teach, guide, and support each student through his or her educational growth and development."
What it reported doing in 2014
Provided educational services to 568 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -51.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2009 to 2014
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.