Totus Pro Deo

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201281508
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2017
Forms available
Form 990 2017
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone
6195824571
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,334,271
Expenses
$1,501,972
Assets
$180,470
Liabilities
$27,590

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARGUERITE RAPP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARGUERITE RAPP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $67,193 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Totus pro deo aka all for god is a non-profit transforming teens, strengthening families and communities. We establish comprehensive youth programs that emphasize moral, character, and spiritual development while providing service, leadership, and social opportunities for at risk teens. Our hope youth partner program has an emphasis on establishing parish based catholic youth programs for teens in underprivileged neighborhoods, providing outreach and services to teens and their families. These youth programs provide prevention and intervention, helping teens avoid high risk behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse, early sexual activity, gang affiliation, etc. Our programs and services are open to all teens.

What it reported doing in 2017

We provide transformational teen events to evangelize teens helping them to grow morally, spiritually, and socially. Steubenville san diego is a 3-day conference with estimated attendance of 5,000 and youth day is a one day conference with estimate attendance of 650. Other events include quarterly evenings of area wide youth ministry, youth ministers' conference, and a 3 day young adult conference. We conduct youth conferences to inspire teens to become disciples of jesus christ in active communion with the catholic church. Our goal is teens who want to continue to grow in their faith, to become leaders in the church and their communities, and to be able and willing to share the gospel of jesus christ by offering large, dynamic, faith-filled catholic events, the organization hopes to open the door for teens to experience christ. We are transforming teens and strengthening families and communities through our hope youth partner program. With hope we provide the resources to build dynamic, year-round youth ministry programs in parishes where there is need. Our staff has over 35 years combined youth ministry experience and expertise. We offer training and support for both youth ministers and pastors, including programming, budgeting, and program development. We offer dozens of skill building workshops and direct mentoring to impact youth ministers with the skills they need to succeed. In low income neighborhoods this is an extremely cost-effective way of intervening with teens, helping them to avoid problems with violence, gangs, drugs and alcohol, and other high risk behaviors. By providing an impactful youth ministry we help teens to do well in school, increasing their graduation rates, and preparing them for college and careers. Vibrant hope youth partner ministries build leadership and strong moral foundations in our teens, strengthening their families and transforming communities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2014 to 2017
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.