Volunteer Southern Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860219048
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5208813300
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,197
- Expenses
- $216,378
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire, prepare and mobilize people and organizations to strengthen communities through service
What it reported doing in 2012
As a volunteer connector organization, the Volunteer Center provides volunteer recruitment and referral services to more than 250 nonprofit organizations throughout Southern Arizona and manages high impact programs that engage volunteers in strategic solutions to community challenges. These programs include: Experience Corps, an academic mentoring program that pairs older adults one-on-one with kindergarten - 3rd grade students; Youth Volunteer Corps, which engages youth 11-18 years of age in a variety of service learning projects and experiences; Greater Tucson Youth Leadership, which prepares youth for leadership and nonprofit board positions; and disaster preparedness initiatives whereby we can be mobilized to operate a Volunteer Reception Center for spontaneous, unaffiliated volunteers in times of great community need. In addition, the Volunteer Center provides training in volunteer management best practices and runs national service programs including AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps *VISTA, and RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program). VSA 2013 Program Service ActivityCommunity partners 44 Total volunteers 464 Referrals 498 Hours served 2,540 hours Clients engaged/impacted 1,240 Clients training participation 36 Nat'l service participation 6
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -195.6%; rating input score 4; 4th 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: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -68.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -74% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $182K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.