Social Action Partners
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271689584
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $484,062
- Expenses
- $409,058
- Assets
- $23,827
- Liabilities
- $9,236
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRAN JEMMOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- AMELIA DUPRE WILLIAMSON (CHAIR)
- SHANI CARTY-ANGUS (SECRETARY)
- EFFIE TURNBULL-SANDERS (TREASURER)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Social action partners mission is to fill the critical gap in the spectrum of support available to communities in order to advance culturally competent policy advocacy and capacity-building efforts, particularly in low-income communities and those of color.
What it reported doing in 2019
Soact provided mangagement and technical assistance for capacity building to organizations and their clients. This was accompllised by assessing capacity needs, facilitating leadership meetings, providing training workshops on management, fundraising, and board development, providing support for events, and one on one support as needed. Soact provided 13 agencies with 16 hours of technical assistance, 4 workshops of 5 hours each, and weekly facilitation of leadership meeting. In addition, soact pfovided 5 other organizations with approximately 10 hours of technical assistance per month on fundraising, board development, and executive director coaching.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 64.4%; rating input score 64; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $356K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.