Paralyzed Veterans of America Cal-diego Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953691162
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8584501443
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $437,911
- Expenses
- $416,403
- Assets
- $1,222,848
- Liabilities
- $6,240
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER BALLANTYNE (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JESSE ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)
- MARIA ARROYO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LOUIS IRVIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER BALLANTYNE (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,517 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the quality of life for us military veterans and others who have spinal cord dysfunction through the use of education, advocacy, research, sports and recreation.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association reimbursed member participation in motorsports activities, the remote control motorsports activity, sports fishing and cultural events, and various services benefiting an estimated 300 members with spinal cord injuries during the fiscal year. The association provided food and recreation to an estimated 100 patients in the va hospital sci unit. The association reimbursed the price of tickets to sporting events to an estimated 20 members. The association provided a scholarship to two student children of members. The association provided grants for ongoing spinal cord research. The association published 6 editions of its beachcomber publication.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. 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: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.94; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $387K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.