Polaris Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921425560
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152600480
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $20,170
- Assets
- $3,027
- Liabilities
- $2,325
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RON ABTA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TRAVIS PACOE (CHAIR)
- RON ABTA (PRESIDENT)
- CHI NGUYEN (SECRETARY AND TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The polaris community foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, awards annual scholarships to qualified high school students and young adults who live in one of our communities and who will be pursuing a college education.
What it reported doing in 2024
The polaris community foundaon, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organizaon, awards annual scholarships to qualified high school students and young adults who live in one of our communies and who will be pursuing a college educaon.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -149.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.