Light for Life Foundation of Southern California Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330786522
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$560
Expenses
$8,455
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Terry Kaltenbach (President)

People named in this filing

  • Terry Kaltenbach (President)
  • Linda Kaltenbach (Secretary)
  • Gabriela Gonzalez (Treasurer)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Light for Life foundation of Southern California through our outreach program: Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention ProgramB., San Diego Chapter, offers a school and community based youth and young adult suicide prevention program that incorporates a collaborative public health model to decrease suicide risk by promoting help seeking behaviors among young people through education, training and public awareness campaigns. During the past 18 years we have distributed over one million Yellow Ribbon Lifeline cards and have provided comprehensive suicide prevention education for nearly 365,000 middle and high school staff, students, parents, and community members in San Diego County. Learn more at www.yellowribbonsd.org. Since 2008, the Light for Life foundation of So CA acts as the fiscal agent for the Save A life San Diego Community Walk. Tax-deductible contributions support the special partnership between the San Diego Chapter of Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention ProgramB. and Survivors o

What it reported doing in 2019

Distribution of educational materials and conduct teenage suicide prevention programs at local schools

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,409.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -53.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -44.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2014 to 2019
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.