The ArchaeoCommunity Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770621337
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2015–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2016
- Location
- Sausalito, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157299572
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2
- Expenses
- $2,837
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Independent Foundations
What it reported funding in 2016
The foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,382. The stated grant purposes included donation for archaeological research - soline and donation of final year cash to 501(c)(3).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of spending goes to grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 84
- Transparency: NotEnoughData
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 4
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Limited
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 7; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: Filed grants detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 4th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
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 — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 4/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to individuals not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.