Charity profile · Historical source record

Share Our Selves

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Personalized care for the Orange County community
Founded in 1970, Share Our Selves (SOS) has grown to become a model nonprofit organization providing the highest quality comprehensive safety net services to the homeless and low-income populations in Orange County. Share Our Selves was established to provide for the most serious concerns of the poor residing in Orange County, including food, clothing and emergency financial aid for housing, transportation, prescriptions and children's needs. SOS has since expanded to include medical and dental care. SOS acts as a caring and non-discriminating servant and works for increased awareness and systemic change in response to the needs of thousands of homeless and financially disadvantaged in their community.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

90.63Overall score
out of 100
87.10Financial score
out of 100
97.00Accountability & 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$17,515,743
Total expenses · USD$17,655,264

Program expenses

$14,759,800.70 recorded amount
83.6%

Fundraising expenses

$600,278.98 recorded amount
3.4%

Administrative expenses

$2,259,873.79 recorded amount
12.8%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.06 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
Karen McGlinn
Recorded compensation
$214,889.00
Recorded compensation percentage
1.21%

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 Share Our Selves
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
97.0
category
Category
Human Services
description
Mission & description
Founded in 1970, Share Our Selves (SOS) has grown to become a model nonprofit organization providing the highest quality comprehensive safety net services to the homeless and low-income populations in Orange County. Share Our Selves was established to provide for the most serious concerns of the poor residing in Orange County, including food, clothing and emergency financial aid for housing, transportation, prescriptions and children's needs. SOS has since expanded to include medical and dental care. SOS acts as a caring and non-discriminating servant and works for increased awareness and systemic change in response to the needs of thousands of homeless and financially disadvantaged in their community.
ein
EIN
95-3222316
tot_exp
Total expenses
17655264.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.128
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.06
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.034
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.836
fscore
Financial score
87.1
leader
Recorded leader
Karen McGlinn
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
214889.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0121
motto
Tagline
Personalized care for the Orange County community
name
Charity name
Share Our Selves
tot_rev
Total revenue
17515743.0
score
Overall score
90.63
state
State code
CA
subcategory
Subcategory
Homeless Services
size
Source size label
big
program_exp
Program expenses
14759800.704
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
600278.976
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
2259873.792

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.