San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680247935
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scouting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,595
- Expenses
- $31,051
- Assets
- $117,158
- Liabilities
- $77,038
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Roche (President)
- Cindy Scott (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Standlee (Secretary)
- Lisa Deutsch Harrigan (Treasurer)
- Kevin Roche (President)
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
The promotion and developement of Science Fiction and Fantasy in all its forms including but not limited to literature film drama and art.
What it reported doing in 2024
Worldcon 76 in San Jose CA - The world science fiction convention with lots of tracks of programming about science fiction and fantasy. The governing body of the Hugo Awards. The convention happened in 2018. We are still paying the expenses of the convention and distributing the remaining funds by paying forward to future Worldcons. All worldcons are non profits as set up by their local laws.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 46% for direct work, and 54% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -763.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.77; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -46.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.