Finding 38578 (2022-002)

Material Weakness
Requirement
ABH
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2022
Accepted
2023-09-28
Audit: 34305
Organization: Homeboy Industries (CA)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Homeboy Industries misclassified federal funds as city grants, leading to inaccurate reporting of $589,466 in expenditures on the SEFA.
  • Impacted Requirements: Compliance with U.S. regulations requiring accurate representation of federal awards in the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Implement a robust internal review process to ensure all federal expenditures are correctly identified and reported in future SEFAs.

Finding Text

Criteria: U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 2, Part 200, section 510(b) Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards requires recipients of federal awards to prepare a schedule of expenditures of federal awards (SEFA) for the period covered by the auditee?s financial statements to accurately reflect federal awards expended for individual federal programs during the auditee?s fiscal year. The determination of when a Federal award is expended must be based on when the activity related to the Federal award occurs. Condition: For the Community Development Block Grant Program for Entitlement Communities (CDBG) (Assistance Listing Number 14.218), the grant was erroneously identified as a city (or local government) grant and therefore, total expenditures of $589,466 incurred during the year were not initially properly identified and reported on the SEFA. Cause: Homeboy Industries was initially unaware that the funds granted by the City of Los Angeles were pass-through federal funds. Effect or Potential Effect: As a result, until the SEFA was corrected, it did not report the complete activity under the loan program for the year ended December 31, 2022. Questioned Costs: N/A. Recommendation: Homeboy Industries should establish a thorough internal review process to ensure amounts reported on the SEFA represent complete and accurate expenditures incurred in the applicable fiscal year. Repeat Finding: Not Applicable

Corrective Action Plan

Management will hold monthly meetings with Government Director and Grants Manager to discuss any new grants received, status changes of existing grants, and review agreements to ensure all federal granted dollars are recognized and included in the SEFA.

Categories

Reporting Matching / Level of Effort / Earmarking

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 615020 2022-002
    Material Weakness

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
14.218 Community Development Block Grants/entitlement Grants $589,466
16.540 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention_allocation to States $319,492
97.024 Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program $155,070
17.270 Reintegration of Ex-Offenders $30,958