Reach Out and Touch Net

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823114701
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2018
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
Location
San Jose, CA, USA
Phone
4084834771
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$71,700
Expenses
$69,600
Assets
$2,100

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Minetta Brown (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Minetta Brown (President & CEO)
  • Shirley Quander (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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Reach Out and Touch.Net was organized to raise funds for charitable causes. Fundraisers are to be conducted through events, such as outdoor and indoor music festivals, concerts, classic car shows, food festivals, art shows, swap meets, and social media. The charitable causes are to include the following: 1. Provide funding for senior care facilities, including assistance with medication, health care expenses, and utility bills, 2. Establish homework centers for children ages 12-16, including tutorial lessons, computer training, and educational research, 3. Assist new business owners and current business owners to obtain affordable commercial property space through rental assistance programs, 4. Assist college students with scholarship, financial assistance programs, and sponsor student internships, 5. Provide additional programs to promote economic development and opportunity in the local community, 6. Provide funding for medical research for cancer, diabetes, autism, muscular dystroph

What it reported doing in 2018

Held several fundraisers during 2018. From these events were able make contributions to charitable organizations of $60,000 in 2018.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.4%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 14

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.4% of revenue deployed · 13.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.