Strong Advocates

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812422515
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2022
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
4242092884
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Legal Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,217
Expenses
$53,045
Assets
$2,773
Liabilities
$38,600

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Betsy Havens (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Scott McVarish (Board Member)
  • Karen Wells (Board Member)
  • Rebecca Watson (Board Member)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Strong Advocates empowers Los Angeles workers who have been sexually harassed or discriminated against by their employers. We provide legal advice, assistance and advocacy. This includes free legal analysis of workers' cases, assistance with identifying community resources to assist them with their case and access to other government benefits, and know-your-rights resources and trainings.

What it reported doing in 2022

Project KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Created a resource webpage to serve as a hub for workers to learn more about their legal rights and to access needed resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. Created know-your-rights publications to assist victims of sexual harassment or assault to recognize potential retaliation during the pandemic. Created know-your-rights videos for victims of sexual assault and discrimination at the work place.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 33
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 4
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.8%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 7

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -545.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 13.92; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -52.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.8% of revenue deployed · 7.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.