Mesa Community Action Network Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860558407
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4809694024
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,376,665
- Expenses
- $4,647,656
- Assets
- $1,054,285
- Liabilities
- $523,604
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL HUGHES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL HUGHES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $314,551 total reported compensation
- CATHERINE DYCIEWSKI (CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER): $171,218 total reported compensation
- DAWN NOONAN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $132,453 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mesa community action network (mesacan) has a mission of "addressing poverty needs to improve the lives of individuals and families in the mesa community."
What it reported doing in 2024
Mesa community action network (mesacan) is a community action program subsidiary of a new leaf, serving more than 9,000 low-income individuals and families in mesa annually. Mesacan offers a comprehensive array of services, such as emergency rent, mortgage and utility assistance, home weatherization assistance, workforce development, and financial coaching.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 68% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $315K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
- 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.