Volunteer Center of Sonoma County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941751375
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7075733399
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,347,814
- Expenses
- $2,350,064
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SERENA LIENAU (VICE PRESIDENT)
- WENDY WHITSON (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID HARTMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID HARTMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $114,612 total reported compensation
- MARK GEARY (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $86,693 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Connecting volunteers for a vibrant community.
What it reported doing in 2019
Court referral - volunteer center's court referral community service program is the referral agency for residents of sonoma county who are assigned community service work by the sonoma county courts or probation department. The program provides placement, follow-up, monitoring and reports on people referred to complete community service work. Those referred to the program may be from traffic court, adult diversion services, the adult and juvenile probation departments, or directly from the criminal and civil courts with conditional sentences. Our program also manages homeless court referrals in partnership with st. Vincent de paul for people who are completing court mandated hours to vacate court fines that are barriers to obtaining their drivers license or access to housing. Referrals for community service work are made in lieu of fines or jail, as a condition of diversion or dismissal, or as an independent, sometimes mandated sentencing option. Clients are matched by holding a face-to-face interview to determine skills, availability and limitations. The court referral program also manages student volunteers from the sonoma county office of education who are completing volunteer hours for their school district.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $48.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.6% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.