San Mateo County Sheriffs Activities League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450617342
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502573407
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,017,635
- Expenses
- $839,090
- Assets
- $1,044,806
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mark Flegel (Director)
- Victor Aenlle (Director)
- Steven Booker (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the sheriff's activities league is to invest in all youth of san mateo county by creating opportunities that guide them toward their full potential through impactful programs, which foster relationships between deputies, youth, families and the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization currently has 50 different activities offered in 12 chapters throughout san mateo county, ca. Sal programs are provided by sal staff, deputies, volunteers and in partnership with other organizations. Sal serves over 3,000 youth annually in waived programs which are programs that sal does the primary supervision of the youth and needs a waiver for liability purposes. Sal serves an additional 8,000 youth in non-waiver programs that include school classes, presentations, events, play streets, movie nights and assembly target campaigns. Sal purposely offers a range of programs and activities in an effort to appeal to a wide range of youth and their varied interests and to meet the focus areas listed below. We strive to have programs in each grouping in each chapter. The five purpose groupings are: physical activity and sal healthy kids - education & art - leadership & mentoring - special events - non-waived presentations and assemblies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 46
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.7%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 18
- Fundraising efficiency: $208.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd 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: 69.2%; rating input score 69; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.7% of revenue deployed · 18.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.