Scholarship Foundation of the Pacific
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461470931
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2014–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2016
- Location
- Santa Rosa Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6619480731
- Rating
- 26
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,060
- Expenses
- $86,381
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
What it reported funding in 2016
The foundation reported 1 filed grant row totaling $18,115. The stated grant purpose was this private foundation solicits donation from nonpublic entities and individuals. donations (net of operating expenses) were sent to donee to make contributions as needed..
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 21
- Transparency: NotEnoughData
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 22
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 21%; rating input score 21; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Limited
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0.15; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: Filed grants detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 22th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2016
- 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.
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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.