Nonprofit Strategies Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562513972
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8584147203
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,555
- Expenses
- $87,211
- Assets
- $7,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide management and strategic consulting to non-profit organizations at fees that are substantially lower than for-profit providers of comparable services.
What it reported doing in 2011
One-on-one management and strategy consulting - assisted nine nonprofit organizations with in-depth, customized strategic and management efforts at fees substantially lower than for-profit providers of similar services. Achievements included: completed audience analysis for regional organization enabling it to better meet the needs of its constituency; led strategic planning processes for several organizations; developed growth plan for social service organization targeting under-served populations enabling them to impact more people's lives; provided business planning coaching to a cohort of health organizations.
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
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $25K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.