Nourish America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770524339
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2009
- Forms available
- Form 990 2009
- Location
- Ojai, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8057942979
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,932,566
- Expenses
- $1,966,589
- Assets
- $1,622
- Liabilities
- $6,532
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2009. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2009. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nourish America improves the health status of adults, children, families, and seniors at risk for malnutrition by providing nutritional supplements, nourishing foods (including organics and naturals) as well as nutrition education and research.
What it reported doing in 2009
Children First: Provide vitamin supplements to needy, homeless and poor children, in order to improve quality of life. Serving 30,000 children a day.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.03; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
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: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule M noncash within contributions did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.