Social Skills America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473832775
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8054522747
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,234
- Expenses
- $41,682
- Assets
- $7,475
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NEIL LEVINSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NEIL LEVINSON (PRESIDENT)
- MARYBETH CARTY (TREASURER/SECRETARY)
- MARCIA WOODWARD HODGES CONSTANCE (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The social skills america mission is to provide students with the necessary skills and tools to succeed in business and in life.
What it reported doing in 2017
Social skills america strives to deliver a comprehensive yet simple guide to social and business etiquette. It gives participants real world life skills key to all students, regardless of where they live, are prepared for career and life. The organization provides a carefully designed curriculum, which teaches students how to politely interact with others and understand many vital social skills as well as the importance of respectful behavior in reaching their goals of independence and success.
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 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
SUPPORTED - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 58% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 156% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- 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.