San Francisco School Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943222869
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158349934
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,139,615
- Expenses
- $5,136,613
- Assets
- $4,105,846
- Liabilities
- $450,328
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization benefits, supports and facilitates the purpose of the san francisco unified school district (sfusd).
What it reported doing in 2012
Fiscal Sponsor Projects - The Alliance provides legal and administrative infrastructure for nascent projects that share our vision of enriching the lives of San Francisco Unified School District students. Current fiscal sponsorship programs include: Ben Baum ScholarshipCollege Success NetworkDCYF - Children Planning & Advisory CouncilDCYF - SF TeamDCYF - Transitional Age Youth InitiativeDCYF - Youth VoteEdMatchEmpowering Youth with DisabilitiesGeorge R. Moscone Elementary School Art ProgramJinshan Mandarin Immersion CouncilNew Day for LearningPlan AheadPrincipals For the ArtsSan Francisco Beacon InitiativeSan Francisco Family Support NetworkSan Francisco Green Schoolyard AllianceSFUSD ElvesTule Elk ProjectYouth Employment Coalition
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.2%; rating input score 96; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 23rd 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: 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: 0.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed
- Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2012
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.