San Francisco Early Care Educators Resource Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472219433
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
5108415252
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$187,048
Expenses
$186,453
Assets
$142,075
Liabilities
$54,789

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Sara Hicks-Kilday (Director): $108,681 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

San Francisco Early Care Educators' Resource Program's mission is to work for the highest quality early care and education and quality of life for San Francisco's diverse young children, families, and educator-caregivers by recognizing and strengthening the influence and expertise of early care educators as well as building unity with families and community allies to access needed resources and develop effective policies and programming.

What it reported doing in 2024

SFECERP's (dba ECESF) field building and peer support program accomplishments: To promote *Leadership Development* among early care educators, ECESF held meetings focused on practice, policy, peer support, and identifying priority needs. This work included: teacher, administrator, and pedagogue leader discussion groups, with peer-facilitators; and meetings bringing group leaders together with new participants, with Spanish and Cantonese simultaneous interpretation. ECESF teacher meetings produced Recommendations for the Department of Early Childhood's Workplace Conditions. ECESF provided *eNewsletters* and updates informing the early care and education community of relevant meetings, events, policy developments, and resources including local and state policy changes and input opportunities, college program opportunities, financial, health, and safety practices, conference, workshop, and employment opportunities. ECESF leaders supported *SF ECE community development* by representing educator needs at local planning council, workforce committee, Community College CDEV & Family Studies Department community advisory bodies, developed plans for use of new municipal funding, evaluated policy impact on current practices and recommended changes. ECESF *convenings and collaborative events* including educators, program operators, and community members, identified key areas of need, and shared information with ECESF community and partners. ECE leaders met with SF department heads, supervisors, and state legislators to apprise them of priority concerns of the ECE workforce and program operators. ECESF worked with local elected leaders to *maintain* allocations of funds dedicated to ECE to address identified community needs impacting early care and education services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,255.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 58.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.