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13181 CROSSROADS PKWY N STE 220
City of Industry CA 91746-3453
City of Industry CA | IRS ruling year: 2004 | EIN: 72-1549994
SHPE CHANGES LIVES BY EMPOWERING THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY TO REALIZE ITS FULLEST POTENTIAL AND TO IMPACT THE WORLD THROUGH STEM AWARENESS, ACCESS, SUPPORT AND DEVELOPM ... (More)
SHPE CHANGES LIVES BY EMPOWERING THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY TO REALIZE ITS FULLEST POTENTIAL AND TO IMPACT THE WORLD THROUGH STEM AWARENESS, ACCESS, SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT. (Less)
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This charity's score is 96%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.
This overall score is calculated from multiple beacon scores: 33% Accountability & Finance, 57% Impact & Results, 10% Culture & Community. Learn more about our criteria and methodology.
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The IRS is significantly delayed in processing nonprofits' annual tax filings (Forms 990). As a result, the Accountability & Finance score for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is outdated and the overall rating may not be representative of its current operations. Please check with the charity directly for any questions you may have.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has earned a 88% for the Accountability & Finance beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies.
This Accountability & Finance score represents IRS Form 990 data up until FY 2020, which is the most recent Form 990 currently available to us.
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Not ApplicableBoard Composition - 12/12 - 25/25 ptsBoard Composition - 12/12 - 25/25 pts
Charity Navigator looks for at least 3 board members, with more than 50% of those members identified as independent (not salaried).
The presence of an independent governing body is strongly recommended by many industry professionals to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters.
Source: IRS Form 990
Independent Audit or Financial Review - Audited - 20/20 ptsIndependent Audit or Financial Review - Audited - 20/20 pts
An Audit, Review, or Compilation provides important information about financial accountability and accuracy. Organizations are scored based on their Total Revenue Amount:
| Total Revenue Amount | Expectation to Receive Credit |
|---|---|
| $1 million or higher | Expected to complete an audit |
| $500,000 - $1 million | Expected to complete an audit, review, or compilation |
| Less than $500,000 | No expectation (removed from scoring methodology) |
Source: IRS Form 990
Conflict of Interest Policy - Listed - 3/3 ptsConflict of Interest Policy - Listed - 3/3 pts
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a conflict of interest policy on the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy protects the organization and by extension those it serves, when it is considering entering into a transaction that may benefit the private interest of an officer, director and/or key employee of the organization.
Source: IRS Form 990
Board Meeting Minutes - Documented - 3/3 ptsBoard Meeting Minutes - Documented - 3/3 pts
Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the Form 990 that the organization has this process in place as an accountability and transparency measure.
An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference.
Source: IRS Form 990
Document Retention and Destruction - Listed - 3/3 ptsDocument Retention and Destruction - Listed - 3/3 pts
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a document retention and destruction policy per the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. These guidelines foster good record keeping procedures that promote data integrity.
Source: IRS Form 990
Whistleblower Policy - Listed - 3/3 ptsWhistleblower Policy - Listed - 3/3 pts
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a whistleblower policy per the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy outlines procedures for handling employee complaints, as well as a confidential way for employees to report financial or other types of mismanagement.
Source: IRS Form 990
Website - Listed - 3/3 ptsWebsite - Listed - 3/3 pts
Charity Navigator looks for a website on the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency metric.
Nonprofits act in the public trust and reporting publicly on activities is an important component.
Source: IRS Form 990
Full CreditPartial CreditNo CreditNot ApplicableLiabilities to Assets Ratio - 41.29% - 15/15 ptsLiabilities to Assets Ratio - 41.29% - 15/15 pts
The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization’s solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
| Liabilities to Assets Ratio | Amount of Credit Received |
|---|---|
| Less than 50% | Full Credit |
| 50% - 59.9% | Partial Credit |
| 60% or more | No Credit |
Source: IRS Form 990
Program Expense Ratio - 68.12% - 13/25 ptsProgram Expense Ratio - 68.12% - 13/25 pts
The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three 990s). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
| Program Expense Percentage | Amount of Credit Received |
|---|---|
| 70% or higher | Full Credit |
| 60% - 69.9% | Partial Credit |
| 50% - 59.9% | Zero Points for Program Expense Score |
| Below 50% | Zero Points for Both Program Expense AND Liabilities to Assets Scores |
Source: IRS Form 990
This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2020
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Activities:
Activity data not reported from the IRS
Foundation Status:
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) or EIN (721549994) in the 'Search Term' field.
This organization was impacted by COVID-19 in a way that effected their financial health in 2020. This normally would have reduced their star rating. Due to the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, we give charities such as this one the opportunity to share the story of COVID's impact on them, and doing this pauses our revision of their rating. Charities may submit their own pandemic responses through their nonprofit portal.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers reported being impacted by COVID-19 in the following ways:
Program Delivery
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's operations financially:
While the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nonprofit sector hard, SHPE immediately responded by setting up our events programming virtually. Because of SHPE's rapid response, SHPE's revenue line and financial operations remained strong and had another record-breaking fiscal year.
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's delivery of programs:
While the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nonprofit sector hard, SHPE immediately responded by setting up our events programming virtually. This included SHPE's career fair and the National Institute for Leadership Advancement, where nearly 900 students attended. Additionally, SHPE adapted its annual National Convention conference, the largest in the nation, to entirely virtual. While this was a significant change for SHPE, the organization fully adapted and successfully delivered our events and programming without a hitch! More than 9,000 STEM students and professionals benefited from career-focused workshops, competitions, and interviews.
How this organization adapted to changing conditions caused by COVID-19:
SHPE's staff is stationed throughout the country and has been fully remote the whole time. SHPE quickly adapted, continued to offer its programming virtually, and continued to communicate and engage its members via weekly digital communications efforts and social media outlets. For example, our outreach for our National Institute for Leadership Advancement conference increased to 900 attendees, a significant increase from previous years.
Innovations the organization intends to continue permanently after the pandemic:
SHPE's virtual training for Chapter leaders will now remain as part of our programming. SHPE also adding a virtual career fair element to our in person National Convention - therefore, making it more accessible to our corporate members as well as our student and professional members. SHPE will continue with this virtual platform for future conferences and our competitions will be remain hybrid.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has earned a 100% for the Impact & Results beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon estimates the actual impact a charity has on the lives of those it serves, and determines whether it is making good use of donor resources to achieve that impact.
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Program
ScholarSHPE
Activities
The nonprofit grants scholarships to beneficiaries.
Program Type
Postsecondary Scholarships
Beneficiaries Served
Program Geography
Time Period of Data
7/1/21 to 6/1/22
Outcomes: Changes in the lives of those served by a nonprofit. They can be caused by the nonprofit.
Costs: The money spent by a nonprofit and its partners and beneficiaries.
Impact: Outcome caused by a nonprofit relative to its cost.
Cost-effectiveness: A judgment as to whether the cost was a good use of resources to cause the outcome.
Outcome Metric
Increase in income for a scholarship recipient
Outcome Data Source
Ratings are based on data the nonprofit itself collects on its work. We use the most recent year with sufficient data. Typically, this data allows us to calculate direct changes in participants' lives, such as increased income.
Output data collected during the program. The nonprofit submitted data on the dollar value of all scholarships it grants and the number of scholarship recipients, which we use to calculate the additional income that the nonprofit's scholarship program generates.
Method for Attributing Outcomes
We don't know if the observed changes were caused by the nonprofit's program or something else happening at the same time (e.g., a participant got a raise). To determine causation, we take the outcomes we observe and subtract an estimate of the outcomes that would have happened even without the program (i.e., counterfactual outcomes).
We estimate the increase in income caused by a nonprofit's scholarship program in two steps. First, we compare the estimated postsecondary graduation rate of its scholars to that of comparable students who did not receive a scholarship (the “counterfactual”). Our estimates are drawn from rigorous social science studies of similar scholarship programs. The result is the number of scholars whose graduation was caused by the nonprofit. Second, we compare the earnings of graduates to non-graduates based on publicly available census data, matching on student demographic characteristics. We apply the earnings boost owing to a degree to those scholars whose graduation was caused by the nonprofit. Both steps are necessary to properly net out counterfactual successes from observed successes. Otherwise, we would be attributing changes (increase in graduation rate and increase in earnings) to the nonprofit when they would have happened anyway. Few nonprofits estimate the counterfactual themselves, so we construct our own counterfactual estimate based on research and publicly available data.
Cost Data Source
After estimating the program's outcomes, we need to determine how much it cost to achieve those outcomes. All monetary costs are counted, whether they are borne by a nonprofit service deliverer or by the nonprofit’s public and private partners.
Program cost data reported by the nonprofit. Partner and beneficiary costs reported by the nonprofit or estimated by Charity Navigator.
Cost Calculation
$1,263,000 program costs + $314,937 partner costs + $314,937 beneficiary costs = $1,892,874 total costs
We calculate impact, defined as the change in outcomes attributable to a program divided by the cost to achieve those outcomes.
Impact Calculation
$1,892,874 total costs / $7,361,901 additional income = roughly $2,000 increases income for a scholarship recipient by $7,900.
Benchmark for Rating
Impact & Results scores of postsecondary scholarship programs are based on income generated relative to cost. Programs receive an Impact & Results score of 100 if they increase income for a recipient by more than $1.50 for every $1 spent and a score of 80 if income increases by more than $0.85 for every $1 spent. If a nonprofit reports impact but doesn't meet the benchmark for cost-effectiveness, it earns a score of 65.
Determination
Highly cost-effective
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers reported its three largest programs on its FY 2020 Form 990 as:
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM'S MISSION IS TO BRING TOGETHER STUDENTS, PROFESSIONALS, AND EMPLOYERS FROM THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH. THE S ... (More)
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM'S MISSION IS TO BRING TOGETHER STUDENTS, PROFESSIONALS, AND EMPLOYERS FROM THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH. THE SERVICES OFFERED INCLUDE CAREER EXPO, INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES WITH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS, NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES, EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS LEAD BY PROMINENT SPEAKERS. (Less)
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ADVANCEMENT (NILA) IS AN ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE CHAPTER AND REGIONAL LEADERS OF THE ORGANIZATION. NILA PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHO ... (More)
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ADVANCEMENT (NILA) IS AN ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE CHAPTER AND REGIONAL LEADERS OF THE ORGANIZATION. NILA PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS AS WELL AS PROMINENT SPEAKERS IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENC (Less)
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
THE SHPE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TO QUALIFIED UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN QUALIFIED ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND STUDYING IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ... (More)
THE SHPE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TO QUALIFIED UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN QUALIFIED ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND STUDYING IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND/OR MATH. (Less)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has earned a 96% for the Culture & Community beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's culture and connectedness to the community it serves.
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Full CreditPartial CreditNo CreditNot ApplicableConstituent Feedback - Data Available - 100/100 ptsConstituent Feedback - Data Available - 100/100 pts
30% of beacon score
This organization reported that it is collecting feedback from the constituents and/or communities it serves. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations that engage in inclusive practices, such as collecting feedback from the people and communities they serve, may be more effective.
Who are the people you serve with your mission? Describe briefly.
Our pre-college program focuses on young Latinos in their final year of High School. We have over 200 student chapters for Hispanic college students in STEM majors. We have over 65 professional chapters that target post college Hispanic professionals.
How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Community meetings or town halls, Suggestion box/email, Other means
How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
With whom does your organization share the feedback you got from the people you serve?
Our staff, Our board, Our funders, Our community partners, Other means
How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship with them or shifted power - over decisions, resources, rules or in other ways - to them?
Feedback that we receive is reviewed and analyzed by our Research and Innovation team. Using this data, we are able to make managerial decisions related to program to ensure we continue to serve our members and the mission of our organization.
What challenges does your organization face in collecting feedback from the people you serve?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection
Briefly describe a recent change that your organization made in response to feedback from the people you serve.
Based on surveys, first generation and first time college students and their parents faced issues with understanding a Hispanic student's journey to a STEM university degree. The Equipando Padres (Equipping Parents) program will focus on supporting these guardians to better help their children earning engineering degrees. Studies show that parent support is critical to student success and college education completion. However, parents of first-generation students are often not able to provide the support needed as they don’t have the experience and resources that could best help their children navigate college challenges.
Equity Practices - Data Available - 95/100 ptsEquity Practices - Data Available - 95/100 pts
70% of beacon score
This organization's score of 95 is a passing score. The organization reported that it is implementing 9 Equity Practices. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations implementing effective equity policies and practices can enhance a nonprofit's decision-making, staff motivation, innovation, and effectiveness.
Equity Practices (3/7) | |
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We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race. | |
We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and/or portfolios. | |
We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization/'s programs, portfolios, and the populations served. | |
We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support. | |
We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders. | |
We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured | |
We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. | |
Equity Policies and Procedures (6/7) | |
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We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity. | |
We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions. | |
We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization. | |
We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board. | |
We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability. | |
We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team. | |
We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. | |
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers cannot currently be evaluated by our Leadership & Adaptability methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
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