Charity profile · Historical source record

Community Assistance Center

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Building stronger families and thus a more stable community
Community Assistance Center (CAC) works to meet basic human needs such as food, shelter, and clothing with the goals of helping individuals and families stay in their home, helping to reduce poverty and building stronger independent families and thus a more stable community. The Center does this by providing short term assistance to families or individuals facing an unexpected financial crisis, Assistance includes financial assistance (i.e. rent, utilities) and/or in-kind assistance (i.e. food, clothing, school and household supplies). We work with clients to address their immediate crisis, identify other available services or providers and guide them to CAC educational programs which offer additional skills that may help them sustain career and personal success for greater economic security.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

78.13Overall score
out of 100
92.50Financial score
out of 100
70.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$3,453,989
Total expenses · USD$2,666,088

Program expenses

$2,314,164.38 recorded amount
86.8%

Fundraising expenses

$63,986.11 recorded amount
2.4%

Administrative expenses

$282,605.33 recorded amount
10.6%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.02 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Tamara Carrera
Recorded compensation
$90,787.00
Recorded compensation percentage
3.40%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Community Assistance Center
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
70.0
category
Category
Human Services
description
Mission & description
Community Assistance Center (CAC) works to meet basic human needs such as food, shelter, and clothing with the goals of helping individuals and families stay in their home, helping to reduce poverty and building stronger independent families and thus a more stable community. The Center does this by providing short term assistance to families or individuals facing an unexpected financial crisis, Assistance includes financial assistance (i.e. rent, utilities) and/or in-kind assistance (i.e. food, clothing, school and household supplies). We work with clients to address their immediate crisis, identify other available services or providers and guide them to CAC educational programs which offer additional skills that may help them sustain career and personal success for greater economic security.
ein
EIN
58-1825565
tot_exp
Total expenses
2666088.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.106
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.02
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.024
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.868
fscore
Financial score
92.5
leader
Recorded leader
Tamara Carrera
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
90787.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.034
motto
Tagline
Building stronger families and thus a more stable community
name
Charity name
Community Assistance Center
tot_rev
Total revenue
3453989.0
score
Overall score
78.13
state
State code
GA
subcategory
Subcategory
Social Services
size
Source size label
small
program_exp
Program expenses
2314164.384
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
63986.112
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
282605.328

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.