San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disaster
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453600883
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154390881
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $950,919
- Expenses
- $839,996
- Assets
- $340,623
- Liabilities
- $45,349
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN WHITLOW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN WHITLOW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $159,017 total reported compensation
- HEATHER LEE (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $127,643 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to build a disaster-resistant community by ensuring non-profit, faith and community-based organizations serving the greater san francisco bay area's vulnerable populations are prepared for a disaster. Moreover, play a central role in coordinating these organizations' disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's activities include preparedness, response, and recovery consulting services. We work primarily with nonprofit and faith-based organizations. Key activities include technical assistance, training services such as active shooter training, and facilitating disaster drills and exercises. Furthermore, we provide collaborative services such as holding community meetings and participating in disaster preparedness community exercises. Our most important program was participating in the listos ca program and providing the community seminair series through bay area uasi.please see schedule o for detail descriptions of programs.sf card is involved in the following programs: bay area uasi training and exercise: as a community preparedness liaison, sf card was tasked to develop and promote relationships within the non-profit, faith based, and business communities throughout the 12-county region covered by the bay area urban areas security initiatives (bauasi). Sf card worked with voluntary/community organizations active in disaster (v/coads), health care coalitions, community/neighborhood emergency response team (c/nert) networks, and other community partners to share training and exercise needs as well as information about tep activities and provide a platform for ongoing stakeholder feedback.listos program: the state of California's office of emergency services (cal oes) allocated over $1 million to nonprofit and faith-based organizations to engage and empower northern californian's most vulnerable populations in emergency preparedness. Sf card was chosen as the intermediary agency to manage and support the listos program. Sf card coordinated with community and faith based organizations in 12 counties to increase the number of families and individuals prepared for a disaster.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $80.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.6%; rating input score 87; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 11.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $796K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.