Public Relations Society of America San Diego Imperial Counties Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930801262
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,536
- Expenses
- $46,392
- Assets
- $78,784
- Liabilities
- $4,048
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jenny Mehlow (President)
- Elena Gomez (President -Elect)
People named in this filing
- Jenny Mehlow (President)
- Elena Gomez (President -Elect)
- Anne Flanagan (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Professional Development Activities
What it reported doing in 2025
Bernays Awards - annual industry awards that recognize public relations professionals for local PR campaigns about 200 people in attendance.
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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 38
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -180.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 37.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.