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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471834138
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Santa Maria, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8057204808
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $455
- Expenses
- $780
- Assets
- $45
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN CORNWELL (CEO)
People named in this filing
- KAREN CORNWELL (CEO)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help aspiring college students who are facing economic or language barriers to meed educational goals by providing one-on-one support in literacy. The write method combines the following processes to aid student literacy:-vocabulary development with the aid of interactive software-reading comprehension and development from reading online informational articles, answering questions, and discussing content-structured writing practice in response to current topics and issuesour vision includes a 15 hour program allocated over a 6 week session to significantly improve a student's literacy and college readiness.
What it reported doing in 2018
Helped aspiring college students facing economic or language barriers to meet educational goals by providing one-on-one support in literacy.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -71.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 74.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2018
- 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 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- 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.