San Diego Memoir Writers Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814909090
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone
9512653418
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,410
Expenses
$56,803
Assets
$25,804
Liabilities
$9,620

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tracy J Jones (President)

People named in this filing

  • Marni Freedman (Founder and Programs Chair)
  • Tracy J Jones (President)
  • Caroline Gilman (VP)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide education and community for memoir writers

What it reported doing in 2024

San Diego Memoir Showcase, serves approximately 500 people annually. A contest for memoir writers to help them get published. Teaches how to submit an essay, how to work with an editor, how to polish a piece for production or publication. Community gathering to celebrate memoir writing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 66% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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 and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 60

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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 99.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th 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 · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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

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.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.