South County Outreach
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330330233
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9493808144
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,908,274
- Expenses
- $6,238,755
- Assets
- $5,367,598
- Liabilities
- $1,571,932
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAVAL BREWER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LAVAL BREWER (CEO): $191,798 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
South county outreach prevents hunger and homelessness by helping people help themselves.
What it reported doing in 2024
Since 1989, south county outreach (sco) has worked toward a community where no one goes to bed hungry or without a place to call home. In 2024, sco assisted more than 8,000 orange county residents, one-third of whom were children, with prevention-focused services that address social determinants of health. Ninety percent of our working-age clients were employed yet still struggling to meet basic needs. Our integrated programs included: -the market, a client-choice food pantry that distributed over one million pounds of fresh and shelf-stable groceries, (continued on schedule o)-homelessness-prevention services providing rental and utility assistance with case management to avert evictions and shutoffs, and-education classes that build financial capability and support long-term self-sufficiency. To help sustain these services, sco also operates a thrift store whose net proceeds support program operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $44.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 9.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $192K · 22 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.