The Auen Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954325051
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Palm Desert, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7603415293
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,534,236
- Expenses
- $1,590,226
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
The Auen Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Palm Desert, CA. EIN 954325051. Tax year 2024 Form 990-PF reports $1.5M revenue and $1.6M expenses.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,064,000. The stated grant purposes included to fund charitable services for those living with cognitive impairment, to honor judy vassler, and providing music programs for all ages in the community, plus 49 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 74% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 71% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 93
- Cost Efficiency: 67
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 85
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
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: Fail
- 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: Pass
- 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: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 31.01; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 93.4% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 85th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 57 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.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.