Social Enterprise Foundation Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822070549
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5209798470
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $348,068
- Expenses
- $194,206
- Assets
- $517,941
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melody R Jones (President CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Melody R Jones (President CEO): $80,613 total reported compensation
- John Forlizzi (Director of Technology): $65,000 total reported compensation
- Camil Mortada (Assistant Director of Students): $15,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Corporation serves as a subsidiary of Social Enterprise Foundation Corporation SEFC who has common control of its administrative and educational services. SEFC created the Corporation in July 2017 but registered the Corporation as it own nonprofit in July of 2019 for the soul purpose of offering educational scientific professional advocacy and supportive role of all affairs of the the Corporation including any or all lawful affairs for which non-profit corporations may be organized hereunder. The Corporation is also organized to operate exclusively pursuant to and within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law. The Corporation is organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes including for such purposes the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under § 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding sec
What it reported doing in 2019
Emergency services to family of the students and to those young adult students not living with their families. Such services as; rental assistance utilities assistance clothing and food distributions and referrals to temporary housing programs for those at-risk of homelessness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.2%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 6
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.67; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 96.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 111.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.2% of revenue deployed · 5.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 40 current checks pass · 6 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OtherSalariesAndWages column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.