San Diego Alpha Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463297383
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8588298215
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,128
- Expenses
- $2,685
- Assets
- $168,801
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Curtis W Price (President)
- Brian Samuels (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Curtis W Price (President)
- Brian Samuels (Vice President)
- Donald Long (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
San Diego Alpha Foundation, mission is to support and provide educational and cultural enrichment activities for students, young adults and the community at large
What it reported doing in 2025
The Martin Luther King Jr. Parade which is held in Downtown San Diego gives the local High Schools and Community Organizations an opportunity to showcase their skills and talents. It also gives us a platform to teach our Youths skills in planning, teamwork, character and leadership. Hundreds of people attend the parade. 5k Run/Walk was held prior to the MLK Parade.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 98.1%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 62.87; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 103% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 90.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 142.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.