San Diego Organizing Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953284521
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6192850797
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,146,475
- Expenses
- $1,049,161
- Assets
- $911,192
- Liabilities
- $28,792
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dinora Reyna (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Dinora Reyna (Executive Director): $120,894 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Development of grassroots leaders who in turn build powerful organizations to transform their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Development of non-partisan civic leadership and community improvement through local community organizing: during fy 2023, san diego organizing project increased our volunteer base, expanded our community organizing work into new communities within san diego county, and conducted listening campaigns and needs assessments in each of our congregations across the region. Each of our 200 volunteers received training and development to build empowering organizations in their neighborhoods, successfully address issues affecting their lives by building relationships within their communities, and engage in public life through advocacy and civic engagement. Volunteers talk with their neighbors, friends, and fellow congregation members; they organize san diegans to engage with one another about common priorities; they develop a shared vision for their community. The organization's multiple community issues work focuses on racial and economic inequity, housing justice, health disparities, neighborhood improvement, comprehensive immigration reform, educational achievement, and neighborhood-specific issues throughout san diego county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.1%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.1% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $677K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.