Somali American United Council of Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010876916
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6025222100
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,728,248
- Expenses
- $1,096,256
- Assets
- $744,357
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR MOHAMED ALI ABUKAR (President)
Highest reported compensation
- DR MOHAMED ALI ABUKAR (President): $111,100 total reported compensation
- SHANNON REBER (Treasurer): $100,380 total reported compensation
- Sadiki Ikyebwe (Secretary): $70,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission and vision of the organization is to facilitate and improve communication channels and contribute to the well-being of the multiethnic refugee/immigrant community, helping them to achieve self-sufficiency and assisting them in becoming productive law-abiding citizens that can properly integrate for a great patriotism. The SAUC help newly arrived families adjust to their new lives, new location, new language and new culture.
What it reported doing in 2024
Immigration Services CTR067737. In collaboration with RRP and our immigration lawyer, including USCIS and other support lawyers, we have helped over 1000 Afghan clients with all of their immigration needs. Our case managers received training on all of the necessary USCIS forms and followed a strict process to check and recheck all forms before being mailed, including sending to our immigration lawyer who checks the forms and signs off and sends any needed corrections if any. We held a town hall meeting on January 26, 2024 featuring those Afghan clients who have benefitted from our immigration services in and before 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 36.6%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.