Sonoran Desert Conference Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475559774
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- AJO, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5203730804
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $885,612
- Expenses
- $801,711
- Assets
- $426,961
- Liabilities
- $121,886
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY SHERBROOKE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EMILY SHERBROOKE (PRESIDENT)
- GINGER ZAMBRANO (TREASURER)
- DANIEL LUTZICK (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sonoran desert conference center provides members of the community with a place to gather for group activities, including educational activities, historical events, public gatherings, community celebrations, and other activities of nonprofit organizations, local businesses, and individuals. The center also provides lodging to visitors of the ajo, Arizona region and local residents.
What it reported doing in 2024
The sonoran desert conference center operation supported workforce readiness, job training, and entrepreneur opportunities to the community of ajo and the surrounding region. These efforts included incubating food- based businesses in the community kitchen and offering market access for local makers and artists. This program invested approximately 40,000 in the local workforce and microbusiness community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $771K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.