Per Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954288042
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104513152
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2
- Expenses
- $17,626
- 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
- MARIA LYMBERIS CO PER FOUND (President)
People named in this filing
- MARIA LYMBERIS CO PER FOUND (President)
- HEATHER SILVERMANCO PER FOUN (Treasurer)
- TIMOTHY HAYES CO PER FOUND (Secretary)
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
To undertake educational, research, and public outreach endeavors relating to mental illness and psychiatry.
What it reported doing in 2019
The PER Advocacy Award: This award is presented during the PER Annual meetings. To date, PER has awarded SIX Advocacy Awards.PER Support and Alliance with NAMI and Mental Illness Awareness Programs: PER has been contributing funds yearly for Mental Illness Awareness activities in our community and other projects promoting mental health. PER has a very special and close relationship with NAMI since its inception when Carla and Brian Jacobs were part of the PER Founders. NAMI members continue to be key members of the PER Advisory Board and PER is an annual contributor to NAMI Walks in our community.PER Psychiatric Resident Support for Attendance at Annual CPA Meetings: Beginning in 2009, PER is contributing annually by funding several psychiatric residents from the SCPS area psychiatric training programs to attend the October California Psychiatric Associations annual meeting. In funding this program the PER Foundation is promoting the professional development of future psychiatrists by encouraging their active participation in life long learning and as a way of welcoming them as future members of the psychiatric profession.
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
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -881,200%; rating input score 0; 0th 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: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 31.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin 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 not authorized to operate as a charity in California.