Sacramento Esl Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
451359107
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2017
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
2097478496
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,143
Expenses
$11,567
Assets
$8,064
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ajay Bhat (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ajay Bhat (President)
  • Gregory Cundari (Treasurer)
  • Victoria Hawes (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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sacramento ESL Program is a non-profit run by former teachers providing multiple levels of English as a second language classes to non-English speakers in Sacramento County. Our organization was initiated when the Sacramento City Unified School District closed its adult education ESL classes in 2012. Our program consists of several weekly multi-hour sessions of classroom instruction at verying levels to meet the needs of our students.

What it reported doing in 2017

We serve over 100 students with diverse needs in our community in the areas of language, individual guidance, GED's, higher education, and free community resources. Classroom instruction includes pronunciation, writing, reading, grammar, listening, and conversation. We provide distance learning to all students and tutors to especially needy students. Outcomes include measuring progress in areas of language, soft skills, long and short term goal setting, and awareness of community resources. Many of our students come from very challenging backgrounds and we make sure that they get the help they need. We provide students with multiple resources including handouts, books, internet websites, and one-on-one tutoring to help assist them in meeting their goals. We collaborate with local agencies such as public libraries and other non-profit organizations in the area to further enhance the services we can provide.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -60.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -33.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2017
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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

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  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.