Simply Destinee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471061429
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Aurora, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3316436001
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,906
- Expenses
- $82,815
- Assets
- $6,046
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hugo Saltijeral (President)
- Yolanda Ramos (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Martin Luna (Executive Dir.)
- Liza Perez (Executive Dir.)
- Hugo Saltijeral (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
Simply Destinee is a youth program in memory of Destinee A. Oliva. Co-founders are dedicated to caring for Aurora's most vulnerable youth, inspiring positive development in their lives, families, and communities, helping overcome challenges such as abuse, neglect and homelessness. Simply Destinee believes all kids deserve to feel safe, healthy and ready to learn.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided community-based support for the at-risk youth that they need to succeed. Provided dance classes and performed dances promoting anti-bullying and suicide prevention. Academic programs were available for all on designated nights. The organization taught expressive dance and performances to teach kids confidence and positive self esteem. Provided a place to go and belong thereby giving youth the community-based support they need to succeed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.