Training and Advocacy Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651232016
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9096263562
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,425
- Expenses
- $16,122
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEN LEVINSON (PRESIDENT)
- LEAH ILAN (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RACHEL HUIZAR-SHAFFER (SECRETARY)
- KEN LEVINSON (PRESIDENT)
- LEAH ILAN (VICE-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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the growth and development of deaf and hard of hearing children and teens to achieve their full potential through skill building in the areas of communication and social interaction.
What it reported doing in 2015
Funding this year was specifically for parent education. Tag provided four parent education workshops for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children and teens. Along with the 4 workshops, we teamed with local schools to provide a family picnic at el sereno park in east los angeles for any parent of deaf and hard of hearing students. Tag also provided 2 socialization and self-advocacy groups in lausd. Each school program included parent education meeting presentations on transition to middle school. Tag also provided inservice to graduate students becoming teachers of the deaf and to a group of professionals in orange county providing services to deaf and hard of hearing students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -264.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2015
- 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.
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 — 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 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.