River Valley Educational Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273055915
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Lakeside, CA, USA
Phone
6193902579
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
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

  • Brian Sparks (President)

People named in this filing

  • Debbie Shands (Treasurer)
  • Keri Hann (Secretary)
  • Brian Sparks (President)

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

Our mission is to support school stakeholder groups and encourage student achievement by fostering a well-rounded educational experience emphasizing academics, STEM, the arts, and athletics.

What it reported doing in 2019

River Valley Educational Foundation (RVEF) supports River Valley Charter School (RVCS) through fundraising, grant writing, and annual campaign funding. Recent State budget cuts have had a negative effect on schools around the region. With the help of an Educational Foundation, schools are able to better bridge the gap between State funding and those needs greater than what the State can provide.

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: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.