Sutton Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953245274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Anaheim, CA, USA
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,212,669
- Expenses
- $1,196,602
- Assets
- $2,252,347
- Liabilities
- $233,035
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michelle Fowler (Vice President)
- Ralph Flores (President)
People named in this filing
- Michelle Fowler (Vice President)
- Charles Maitre (Secretary)
- Ralph Flores (President)
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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sutton Foundation, Inc.is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Anaheim, CA that provides adults with developmental disabilities the ability to learn daily living skills, use neighborhood services, and enjoy a family atmosphere.
What it reported doing in 2021
The foundation extends care services for the needs of adults with developmental disabilities by operating board and care homes in Orange County, CA. The foundation is committed to providing individualized training in a supportive, loving family-like atmosphere that enables the clients to achieve and enjoy their full potential as they acquire the necessary skills to become more responsible and productive citizens.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.3%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 13
- Fundraising efficiency: $176.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 7th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.3% of revenue deployed · 13.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2011 to 2021
- 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.
- 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.
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: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.