Salesforceorg
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262409769
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155362170
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,460,583
- Expenses
- $53,641,862
- Assets
- $28,606,625
- Liabilities
- $28,515,818
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUZANNE DIBIANCA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD PURDY (ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE): $810,969 total reported compensation
- NANCY DE VORE (ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE): $568,649 total reported compensation
- JESSE MADDEX (ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE): $535,165 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To leverage the power of salesforce.com's people, technology, and resources to improve communities and promote compassionate capitalism.
What it reported doing in 2014
Salesforce.org will provide up to 10 free subscriptions of salesforce.com application and any additional subscriptions will be sold at a significant discount. The application is provided primarily to 501(c)(3) entities as well as us public schools and universities. It will also be available to foreign organizations that carry out charitable programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 94.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $811K · 19 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2009 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.