United Playaz
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205005815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8889752929
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,719,038
- Expenses
- $11,219,758
- Assets
- $18,316,321
- Liabilities
- $25,002,570
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rudy Corpuz Jr (Executive Director)
- Vajra Watson (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Rudy Corpuz Jr (Executive Director): $166,752 total reported compensation
- Carolyn Caldwell (CFO & COO): $151,497 total reported compensation
- Misha Olivas (Director): $131,875 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United Playaz is a San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development organization. We provide a comprehensive range of services to prepare vulnerable youth for higher education, employment, and healthy living within a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Re-Entry & Crisis Response/Intervention-The organization provides skill development and workforce enrollment services and referrals to vocational training and other employment programs. The program provides mentoring and assistance with navigating systems postincarceration. Further, the organization provides crisis response and intervention services to youth, geared toward reducing cycles of destructive behavior. The program improves the kids' overall health by increasing their knowledge and access to ancillary services through a well-established network of partners and referral services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 74% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.37; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 8 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $459K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.